My Patriarch is Mordovian.

My Metropolitan is Canadian.

My Archbishop is German.

I am English.

My Deacon is Romanian.

His wife is Latvian.

Last Saturday’s baptisms were of a Lithuanian and a Frenchman.

After the Liturgy last Sunday I spoke in particular to seven parishioners: An Italian, a Norwegian, a Turk, a Bulgarian, a Slovak, a Ukrainian and a Cretan.

Today I baptized a Moldovan.

Clearly, I belong to the Russian Orthodox Church.