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Condolences Expressed over Death of Russian Patriarch
Pyongyang, December 8 (KCNA) -- Jang Jae On, chairman of the Korean Council of Religionists, and Ho Il Jin, chairman of the Korean Orthodox Church Committee, on Monday sent messages of condolences to Chairman of the Office of Foreign Relations of the Russian Orthodox Church Kirill who is patriarch of Smolensk and Kaliningrad Regions over the death of Patriarch Alexy II of the Russian Orthodox Church.

His death is a great loss for the Russian Orthodox Church and people, the messages said, praying for the immortality of the deceased.

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