This was reported in the Telegram channel of the working group under the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia to coordinate the activities of church institutions in the context of the spread of coronavirus infection.

“Archpriest Alexander Ageykin, rector of the Epiphany Elokhov Cathedral in Moscow, went to the Lord,” the statement said.

On January 26, Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin died at the 52nd year of life near the church of Theodore Studit at the Nikitsky Gate in Moscow.