The Lord is sorely missed

On November 30, 1957, the bishop’s episcopal consecration took place. For the 50th anniversary, the diocese published a booklet with photographs telling about the ministry of Metropolitan Anthony. In an interview with the Interfax agency, Archpriest Mikhail Dudko, cleric of the Sourozh diocese, admitted that the late Bishop Anthony is “really missed.” Metropolitan Anthony “knew how to express such complex thoughts in such an accessible language that it was equally understandable to both the most complex people and the simplest. He knew how to communicate in such a way that everyone felt like the only center of his attention, an important and valuable person,” said Father Mikhail . “Through his efforts, a unique diocese of the Russian Church was created, in which there is truly “neither Greek nor Jew.” Here the inhabitants of the European country farthest from Russia, the British, were able to understand that Orthodoxy is their ancient faith, to understand and want to return to it ", he noted.