{"id":1078,"date":"2020-12-05T07:29:48","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T07:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=132935"},"modified":"2020-12-05T07:29:48","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T07:29:48","slug":"serbian-orthodox-church-head-hospitalized-for-covid-19-month-after-predecessor-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/05\/serbian-orthodox-church-head-hospitalized-for-covid-19-month-after-predecessor-died\/","title":{"rendered":"Serbian Orthodox Church Head Hospitalized For COVID-19 Month After Predecessor Died"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/3BB6E087-8510-46F5-A74E-8CEA60044FF9_cx0_cy1_cw0_w1200_r1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"wsw\">\n<p>The acting head of the Serbian Orthodox Church was hospitalized on December 4 after testing positive for coronavirus, the church\u2019s information service said.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Hrizostom was admitted to a hospital in the nation\u2019s capital Belgrade, it said. The church did not release information about the condition of the 68-year-old\u2019s health.<\/p>\n<p>Hrizostom became interim leader of the church after Patriarch Irinej died of COVID-19 last month. Hrizostom presided over the funeral services of Irinej, who was 90 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Metropolitan Amfilohije, the head of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro, died of COVID-19 in October. Irinej lead the funeral services for Amfilohije.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2020\/12\/05\/serbian-orthodox-church-head-hospitalized-for-covid-19-month-after-predecessor-died\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The acting head of the Serbian Orthodox Church was hospitalized on December 4 after testing positive for coronavirus, the church\u2019s information service said. Bishop Hrizostom was admitted to\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,23,75],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1079,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions\/1079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}