The Chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, expressed condolences to His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon of All America and Canada on the repose of one of the senior clergy of the Orthodox Church in America, Protopresbyter Daniel Hubiak.
To His Beatitude
the Most Blessed Tikhon,
Archbishop of Washington,
Metropolitan of All America and Canada
Your Beatitude!
With sadness I received the news of the repose of one of the oldest clerics of the Orthodox Church in America, Protopresbyter Daniel Hubiak.
Fr. Daniel devoted his whole life to the service of the Church of Christ. In addition to his pastoral work, he carried out the responsible church obediences of treasurer and chancellor of the Orthodox Church in America.
The late Fr. Daniel labored especially to strengthen the ties of the Orthodox Church in America with its Mother Church. He was a direct witness of the era of the granting of the Tomos of autocephaly, and later the first Representative of the Orthodox Church in America to the Moscow Patriarchal Throne, and the builder and first rector of the Moscow Representation Church of the Orthodox Church in America.
I was fortunate, as a priest, to serve together with this outstanding pastor at the Church of the Great Martyr Catherine in Vspolye. I can testify to the sincere love of Muscovites for Fr. Daniel. With great joy we recalled those times with the Protopresbyter during our last meeting in Moscow in December 2019, during the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Representation Church.
I pray for the repose of the soul of the newly reposed Protopresbyter Daniel in the dwellings of the righteous. Please convey my sincere condolences and words of consolation to the bereaved Matushka Eudokia, the children, relatives, loved ones and spiritual children of the departed.
Memory eternal!
Chairman
of the Department for External Church Relations
of the Moscow Patriarchate
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk