Filaret hospitalized with COVID-19
Head of the UOC-KP Filaret Denisenko: Photo: strana.ua
Filaret Denisenko, head of the Kyiv Patriarchate, was taken to hospital with a COVID-19 diagnosis, the press service of the UOC KP said.
"Patriarch Filaret is ostensibly undergoing treatment,” the press service of the UOC-KP said on its official Facebook page. “We inform you that His Holiness Patriarch Filaret of Kyiv and All Rus-Ukraine, during routine testing, tested positive for COVID-19. Now His Holiness is undergoing treatment in the hospital. The Patriarch's health is satisfactory."
Earlier, Filaret said that Epiphany Dumenko was waiting for his death.
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