Messages of congratulations to Pope Leo XIV on his election

13 May 2025

On the occasion of the election of His Holiness Leo XIV as the new Bishop of Rome and Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church, on 8 May 2025, numerous messages of congratulations were sent by various Churches, Christian Communions, international ecumenical organisations and representatives of Judaism.

ORTHODOX CHURCHES

His Holiness John X, Patriarch of Antioch and All the East
His Beatitude Theophilos III, Patriarch of Jerusalem
His Holiness Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow
His Holiness Daniil, Patriarch of Bulgaria
Synod of the Orthodox Church of Greece
His Beatitude Joani, Archbishop of Tirana, Durrës and All Albania

ORIENTAL ORTHODOX CHURCHES

Coptic Orthodox Church
His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of Cilicia, Armenian Apostolic Church
His Holiness Sahag II, Armenian Patriarch of Turkey
His Holiness Abune Baslios I, Patriarch of the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church
His Holiness Mar Baselios Marthoma Mathews III, Catholicos of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church
His Grace Joseph Mar Barnabas, Suffragan Metropolitan of the Syro-Malankara Mar Thoma Church

WESTERN CHRISTIAN CHURCHES AND COMMUNIONS

The Very Reverend Anthony Poggo, Secretary General of the Anglican Communion
His Grace Stephen Cottrell, Archbishop of York and Primate of England
The Reverend Anne Burghardt, General Secretary of the Lutheran World Federation, and Bishop Henrik Stubkjær, President of the Lutheran World Federation
The Reverend Paul S. Tché, General Secretary of the Disciples Ecumenical Consultative Council
The Reverend César García, General Secretary of the Mennonite World Conference
General Lyndon Buckingham, The Salvation Army

INTERNATIONAL ECUMENICAL ORGANISATIONS

The Reverend Jerry Pillay, General Secretary, and Bishop Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, President, World Council of Churches

REPRESENTATIVE OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY

Rabbi Mark Dratch, President of the International Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consultations