Patriarch Teoctist, the head of the Orthodox Church in Romania, died of heart complications on Monday. He passed away while in a Bucharest hospital where he went through a surgical intervention for prostate earlier on Monday. According to doctors, he died because of older heart problems at 5 p.m. Romanian time. The surgical intervention was not an emergency one, but a programmed one. Doctors at the Fundeni Hospital where Teoctist died said that it was his decision to be hospitalised in Romania. They said the surgical intervention was a success and that the complications that led to his death are blamed on his age and fatigue. The body will be laid at the Patriarchal Cathedral on Tuesday. The permanent synod of the Church will convene on Tuesday as well to establish everything needed for the funerals of the veteran leader of Romanian Orthodox Church. Patriarch Teoctist was born February 7, 1915 in the village of Tocileni, Botosani County under the name of Toader Arapasu. He was the tenth child in a family of 11 children. On November 9, 1986 he was named Archbishop of Bucharest, head of the metropolitan church of Ungrovlahia and Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church.