Bishop dies after having been diagnosed with cancer and coronavirus

Bishop of Borjomi and Bakuriani Lazare (Samadbegishvili) has died. As the head of the public relations department of the Patriarchate, Archpriest Andria Jagmaidze, told InterPressNews, the bishop had a coronavirus along with other concomitant diseases.

"He died this morning. He had a cancer and recently underwent surgery, he also had coronavirus,” Jagmaidze said.