In Moscow, the rector of the Church of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos in the Izmailovo district, Archpriest Vladimir Bushuev, died after contracting the coronavirus. This was reported on the website of the Moscow diocese.
The report notes that Bushuev died "at the age of 68, from complications caused by a coronavirus infection."
Earlier, several clergymen of the Russian Orthodox Church who contracted COVID-19 died. Moscow , before that the rector of the Epiphany Cathedral in the Basmanny district Alexander Ageikin, as well as the rector of the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Krylatsky Georgy Breev, died. in So , in early May, the former head of the Astrakhan diocese, Jonah (Karpukhin), died