His Holiness Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, has sent Paschal messages to heads of non-Orthodox Churches, among them Patriarch Tawadros II of the Coptic Church, the Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark; Pope Francis of Rome; Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II of

Antioch and All the East (Syriac Jacobite Church); Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos Karekin II of all Armenians; Catholicos Aram I of Cilicia; Catholicos-Patriarch Mar Gewargis III Sliwa if the Assyrian Church of the East; Maronite Patriarch Bechara Boutros Cardinal al-Rahi of Antioch and All the East; Malankara Metropolitan and Catholics of the East Baselios Mar Thoma Paulose II; and Patriarch Abune Mathias I of Ethiopia.

The message of greetings states in particular,

‘On the great day of the glorious resurrection of Christ Who has opened to people the way to eternal blissful life, I address myself to you with the joyful Paschal greeting:

CHRIST IS RISEN!

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