Russian Patriarch Kirill fell during a service in the Novorossiysk church due to the floor being wet with holy water.

The cleric is seen in the video as he descends from the pulpit and slips and ends up ruinously on the ground, then the Russian director quickly changed the frame by switching with the images to outside the church.

According to the report of Tass news agency, the head of the Russian Orthodox church did not suffer any consequences.

"The floor is beautiful, you can mirror yourself, it is so shiny and smooth," Kirill later said during the sermon, "But when water falls on it, even if it is holy water, it is the laws of physics that work. On this beautiful floor I fell so unfortunately but, by God's grace, without any consequences."

(Translated using DeepL)