The spiritual leader of the Orthodox Church, a conservative Christian sect in the European country of Serbia, has died.
According to the New York Times, Petri Ark of the Serbian Orthodox Church, also known as the patriarch or spiritual leader, died on November 19 at the age of 90 after being infected with corona.
Serbs and Orthodox Christians are separate from Catholics and do not believe in Vatican City or Pope Francis.
There are also several denominations of Orthodox Christians and the Serbian Orthodox Church has more than 12 million followers worldwide.
Although the European country of Serbia has a total population of up to 7.5 million and some of its population is Catholic, followers of the Serbian Church live in the United States and Australia, as well as in other European countries.
The head or spiritual leader of the Serbian Orthodox Church, commonly referred to as the Serbian Orthodox Church, is referred to as the "Patriarch", also known as the Patriarch.
According to the New York Times, Petri Ark, 90, of the Serbian Orthodox Church, was diagnosed with corona on November 4 and was admitted to a military hospital.
The report said that the Christian patriarch, who died of corona, attended the last rites of a senior Christian scholar in neighboring Montenegro last October, apparently due to pneumonia, but also corona. Symptoms were found.
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) said in a report that the Serbian Orthodox patriarch who had died because of Corona, who attended the last rites of the Christian scholar, was strongly opposed to corona protection. He too was affected by Corona in the last days of his life.
Dozens of other people attended the last rites of the Christian scholar, and the people kissed the body of the deceased scholar, the report said.
Dozens of people attended the last rites without a face mask, according to the report, and the body of a religious scholar who died of corona was left open to the public in a coffin.
It was only after attending the ceremony and performing the last rites of the dying cleric that the Serbian Orthodox spiritual leader contracted corona and died on November 19 after a 20-day illness.
The spiritual leader of the deceased Orthodox Church, who had held office for decades, was considered a strict religious scholar.
The 90-year-old Prime Minister was strongly opposed to abortion and always said that women should raise the nation's generation by having as many children as possible.
The deceased was a staunch opponent of homosexuality and expressed outrage at the Serbian government's crackdown on homosexuals, including its half-naked freedom for women.
