Serbian Orthodox Church Patriarch Irinej died aged 90 on Friday as a result of complications related to COVID-19, the Serbian Orthodox Church has confirmed.
Irinej tested positive for the coronavirus and was admitted to hospital in Belgrade on November 4. His condition started to worsen on November 15.
He was last seen in public on November 1 when he presided over the funeral service of Metropolitan Amfilohije Radovic, the Church’s senior bishop in Montenegro. He also died of COVID-related complications. Media reported that Irinej most probably got infected with COVID before the funeral.
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