“The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, signed a decree banning Archdeacon Andriy Kurayev from performing religious services.”, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
Source: website of the Moscow City Diocese, archdeacon’s blog
Literally: “In view of your previous actions, in respect of which complaints were received on my behalf, you are banned from the priesthood until a decision is made by the diocesan ecclesiastical court after consideration of the mentioned actions.”
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Details: The reason for this decision was called “the public insult to the memory of the abbot of the Epiphany Cathedral in Moscow, archpriest Oleksandr Ageikin, despite the grief of his wife and children, on the day of his death, which characterizes this action not only as immoral, but also as particularly cynical.”
In his blog, Kuraev wrote about the priest who died from the coronavirus and called him a “stupid careerist who made a career in the field of VIP service.”
He also recalled that due to “small reforms of Cyril” he became the first abbot of the Yelokhov Cathedral who did not receive the title of protopresbyter.
We will remind: Over the past day, a record number of patients with coronavirus died in Moscow – 67 people, all of whom had confirmed pneumonia.