Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has contracted the coronavirus, and as a result, all of his planned trips and meetings have been canceled, according to the website of the Moscow Patriarchate.
“In the following days, all planned meetings and trips of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill are canceled due to the covid disease, which is progressing with severe symptoms and the need for bed rest and isolation,” said Acting Patriarch. the head of the patriarch’s press service and chairman of the Synodal Department for relations between the church and the society and the media, Vladimir Legoida, whose words are quoted in the message.
Legoida added that the condition of the head of the Russian Orthodox Church is satisfactory. Patriarch Kirill is already 75 years old.
After the announcement of the patriarch’s illness, the Russian Orthodox Church called on the faithful to pray for his health. “Let us pray for the health of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill,” Zelenograd Bishop Sava (Tutunov) wrote on his Telegram channel.
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