Patriarch Kirill hurt his back after he fell during a service in the Black Sea city of Novorossiysk.
Patriarch Kirill was consecrating a church in the city of Novorossiysk in the southern Krasnodar region by the Black Sea when he slipped on the marble floor.
A church spokesman said that the patriarch hurt his back on the edge of the pulpit after nearby security guards and other bishops were unable to react in time to stop his tumble, the newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets reported. The service continued. The patriarch tried to laugh off the fall which he put down to being the victim of a slippery surface."The fact I fell today doesn't mean anything," he told the faithful in a clip shared by"It's just the floor is wonderful, you can look at yourself in it, it's so shiny and smooth," he said,"When water is spilt on it, even if it is holy then the laws of physics come into play.
Head of the Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill took a tumble this morning while consecrating a church in the Black Sea city of Novorossiysk
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