On behalf of the faithful of the Patriarchal Bulgarian Orthodox Diocese,  and the Russian Community attached to St. Sabbas Orthodox Monastery, we wish to express our deepest and sincere emotions and heartfelt prayers on the repose of His Eminence Metropolitan LAURUS, First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia.  Memory Eternal! Memorial Eternal! Memory Eternal!

St. Sabbas Monastery was begun under the omophorian of the late Metropolitan VITALLY, of Blessed Memory.  It was with the blessing and sincere prayers of Metropolitan LAURUS that permission was granted to help in the vinyard of Christ's Holy Church within the Bulgarian Patriarchal Diocese -old calendar- May there always be brotherly love and mutual respect as we walk together as pilgrims towards the Heavenly Kingdom.