A double loss of the Russian Orthodox Church: died Chaplin and Stadnyuk

the untimely death of Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin said in the Telegram, the Deputy chief of the Moscow Patriarchate Bishop Zelenograd Savva (Tutunov).

Words of grief have written and the Chairman of the Synodal Department for Church and society and the media Vladimir Legoyda.

the well-Known priest, died at about 16:30. Chaplin became ill when he was sitting on a bench at the Church of St. Theodore the Studite Nikitsky gate. Brigade ambulance arrived in 15 minutes, but to help father Vsevolod has failed. He was 51 years old.

Today it became known about the death of the honorable Abbot of the Epiphany Cathedral in Moscow, Protopresbyter Matthew Stadnyuk. One of the most famous clerics of the Russian Orthodox Church was ‘ 94. For 35 years Stadnyuk was rector of the Epiphany Cathedral, reports of the ROC.