His Beatitude TIKHON, Metropolitan of All-America and Canada, Archbishop of Washington

Your Beatitude! 

It is my pleasure to extend my sincere congratulations to you on the occasion of your election as the Primate of the Orthodox Church in America. I wish you spiritual strength, wisdom and inexhaustible assistance of our Lord Jesus Christ, through the intercession of holy prayers of your predecessor and heavenly patron - St. Tikhon (Bellavin) - in your upcoming endeavors.

JUSTINIAN, Archbishop of Naro-Fominsk, Administrator of the Patriarchal Parishes in the USA

16 November, 2012