The following is the telegram of condolence from the Holy Father to Cardinal Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo, apostolic administrator “sede vacante et ad nutum Sanctae Sedis” of the archdiocese of Caracas and archbishop of Merida, Venezuela, on the death yesterday, 23 September 2021, of His Eminence Cardinal Jorge Liberato Urosa Savino, metropolitan archbishop emeritus of Caracas, Venezuela, of the Title of Santa Maria ai Monti:

Telegram of the Holy Father

HIS EMINENCE CARDINAL BALTAZAR ENRIQUE PORRAS CARDOZO

ARCHBISHOP OF MERIDA

APOSTOLIC ADMINISTRATOR OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF CARACAS

UPON RECEIVING THE NEWS OF THE DEATH OF CARDINAL JORGE LIBERATO UROSA SAVINO, ARCHBISHOP EMERITUS OF CARACAS, I EXPRESS TO YOUR EMINENCE MY FEELINGS OF SORROW, ASKING YOU TO KINDLY CONVEY THEM ALSO TO THE RELATIVES OF THE DECEASED PRELATE AND TO ALL THOSE WHO FORM PART OF THIS ECCLESIAL COMMUNITY.

LIKEWISE, REMEMBERING THIS DEVOTED PASTOR WHO, FOR YEARS AND WITH FIDELITY, GAVE HIS LIFE TO THE SERVICE OF GOD AND THE CHURCH, I ASSURE MY PRAYERS FOR THE ETERNAL REPOSE OF HIS SOUL, SO THAT THE LORD JESUS MAY GRANT HIM THE CROWN OF GLORY THAT DOES NOT FADE, AND I IMPART TO ALL THE APOSTOLIC BLESSING, AS A SIGN OF CHRISTIAN HOPE IN THE RISEN LORD.

FRANCIS