Patriarch Kirill falls ill with covid
Patriarch Kirill fell ill with covid. This was reported by the press service of the Moscow Patriarchate.
“In the coming days, all scheduled meetings and trips of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill are canceled due to the covid disease, which occurs with severe symptoms, with the need for bed rest and isolation,” said Vladimir Legoyda, the Chairman of the Synodal Department for Church Relations with Society and the Media, temporarily acting head of the press service of the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, on September 30, 2022 .
The press secretary added that the condition of the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church is satisfactory.
Earlier, the UOJ reported that Patriarch Kirill called on believers for "spiritual mobilization."
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