NEW YORK: 10 April 2026
His Eminence Nicholas, Metropolitan of Eastern America and New York, sent a Paschal greeting to His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos III of the Holy City of Jerusalem and All Palestine

Your Beatitude,
Most Blessed Master!

I greet You on the Feast of Feasts—the Pascha of our Lord—that inexhaustible wellspring of eternal life, love, truth, and sublime spiritual joy: CHRIST IS RISEN!

May the Savior of the world, Who rose from the Tomb, fill You with spiritual joy and grant You the grace to glorify His three-day Resurrection with a pure heart!

On behalf of the Synod of Bishops, I assure Your Beatitude of our Church’s fervent prayers for You, for the hierarchs and clergy, and for the entire Patriarchate of Jerusalem—the Mother of Churches—which You lead, and whose children are once again enduring the bitterness of suffering. I also express to You my profound gratitude for Your zealous labors, your steadfastness in the Faith, Your fidelity to the sacred canons, and Your support for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church under the omophorion of His Beatitude Metropolitan Onouphry, all of which serve to strengthen the unity of Christ's Church. Your support stands as an example of true devotion, for which I offer You my deepest reverence.

Humbly requesting your holy prayers, I remain, with love in the Risen Christ,

+ NICHOLAS
Metropolitan of Eastern America and New York
First-Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia

The Pascha of our Lord 2026