“A total of 3915 clergy and monastics of the Russian Orthodox Church have been ill with coronavirus infection.

Including 372 clergymen of Moscow parishes, 2660 clergymen of the dioceses of Russia and 883 clerics and monks of stavropegia, ”the Telegram channel said.

At the end of November, it was reported about the death of the rector of the Church of the Myrrh-Bearing Women in Kaluga, Archimandrite Donat, from complications of COVID-19.

Archpriest Konstantin Parkhomenko, in an interview with Nation News, commented on the death of Archpriest Dimitri Smirnov, honorary chairman of the Patriarchal Commission on Family Issues, Protection of Motherhood and Childhood.