Met. Anthony

An excerpt on the life of Met. Anthony of Sourozh from "Remembering Metropolitan Anthony".

Few bishops were more accessible to their flock, but this sometimes had comical results. When one parishioner rang to say that “Peter” had died and asked for prayers, Metropolitan Anthony immediately complied, then asked when the funeral would be. “Oh, there won’t be one,” he was told. “We flushed Peter down the loo.” Peter turned out to be a parakeet.

http://thechildrenofgod.blogspot.com/2011/04/metropolitan-anthony-of-sourozh.html

“We should try to live in such a way that if the Gospels were lost, they could be re-written by looking at us.”

– Metropolitan Anthony of Souroz