Many churches in the Washington, D.C.-area are on high alert after an Episcopal pastor this weekend tested positive for the coronavirus.

Timothy Cole, who has led Christ Church in Georgetown since 2016, was diagnosed late Saturday evening with the COVID-19 virus. The church canceled all services the following Sunday, the first time since a fire in the 1800s.

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