This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the website of the Baku and Azerbaijan Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC).

"On June 10, on the feast of the Ascension of the Lord, after a long and serious illness, at the age of 69, died ... His Eminence Alexander, Archbishop of Baku and Azerbaijan," the statement says.

In January, the Belarusian Orthodox Church (BOC) announced that the honorary patriarchal Exarch of All Belarus, Metropolitan Filaret, had died.