Alexy II denied rumors about his operation
Patriarch Alexy II. RTVI frame The Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Alexy II denied rumors that abroad he had an operation on aorticronary bypass, as well as the clinical death, which he allegedly survived. “There was no truth in those messages,” RIA Novosti quotes his words. “I never had any aorticoronary noise at all. There was no clinical death,” the patriarch said after a worship in the Pokrovsky convent of Moscow. He noted that if these messages were true, he would not have served today.