Metropolitan Mitrofan of Lugansk and Alchevsk has died
On Friday, June 18, 2021, at the age of 59, a permanent member of the Holy Synod and chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan of Lugansk and Alchevsk Mitrofan (in the world Mikhail Ivanovich Yurchuk), died after suffering from heart disease. This was reported by the official website of the Russian Orthodox Church, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The Holy Synod appointed Bishop Mitrofan to the Lugansk See...