"On August 8, 2020, after a short serious illness, at the age of 80, the Chairman of the Supreme Church Court of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Head of the Kuban Metropolitanate, Metropolitan of Yekaterinodar and Kuban Isidor", said in a statement on the website of the Kuban Metropolitanate.

He headed the Kuban diocese since 1987.

Earlier it was reported that one of the oldest bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC), the head of the Chuvash metropolis, Barnabas, died at the age of 90.