This was reported by the Berlin and German Diocese of ROCOR in Telegram.

“Today... the First Hierarch of the Russian Church Abroad, Metropolitan Hilarion, reposed in the Lord in New York.

Everlasting memory.

We ask for prayers for the newly reposed Metropolitan Hilarion,” the statement reads.

In January, the death of Metropolitan Vladimir Kotlyarov, who participated in the return of the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God to Russia from the United States, was reported.