Greek bishop Serapheim passed away after suffering from the coronavirus at a Thessaloniki hospital in the early hours of Tuesday.

He was sixty-one years of age.

Serapheim, the Metropolitan of the northern Greek city of Kastoria, was admitted to Thessaloniki’s 424 General Military Training Hospital with mild symptoms of the disease back on December 8.

His condition started to deteriorate rapidly on December 20 and he had to be transferred to an ICU.

Greek Reporter