To His Beatitude, Most Blessed Tikhon, Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada
Your Beatitude, beloved in the Lord Brother and Concelebrant at the Throne of God!
It was with sorrow that I received the news of the repose of Protopresbyter Leonid Kishkovsky, whom I knew personally and with whom I worked at various inter-church forums for fifty years. I express my sincere condolences to the widow of the departed, Matushka Alexandra, and to his children and grandchildren.
I offer prayers to the All-Merciful Lord that He may settle the newly reposed laborer in the field of the Church in the eternal mansions, in a place of brightness, a place of verdure, a place of repose and strengthen the spiritual powers of all who now grieve this loss.
With fraternal love in the Lord
+KIRILL, PATRIARCH OF MOSCOW AND ALL RUSSIA