Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, Metropolitan Kliment of Kaluga and Borovsk, and Metropolitan Filaret from Minsk. One of these three men will soon be elected patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Whoever is chosen will have no shortage of internal problems to deal with, but we must pray that he also finds the energy to work vigorously for Christian unity.
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