“On November 29, 2020, it became known about the death of the abbot of the Church of the Myrrh-Bearing Women in Kaluga, Archimandrite Donat (Petenkov),” the message says.

The working group on coronavirus under the patriarch clarified that the archimandrite died after complications due to coronavirus infection.

On November 20, Patriarch of Serbia Irenaeus, who had been previously hospitalized with COVID-19, died.