The temporary vicar – or locum tenens – of the Patriarchate of Serbia, the Metropolitan Bishop of Dabar-Bosna, His Eminence Hrizostom, this week noted that the Serbian Church had underestimated the danger emanating from the Covid-19 pandemic.
As a result, one of the victims of the pandemic was reposed Serbian Patriarch Irinej, along with dozens of hierarchs, clerics, monks and nuns of the Church, he was quoted as saying.