the Yekaterinburg diocese has forbidden the priesthood and deprived of the right to wear the pectoral cross of chiyoumen Sergiy (Romanov), which cursed those who close churches during the pandemic COVID-19.
Earlier chiyoumen already deprived of the right to preach and speak in public, reports “Interfax”. Now Serge can’t make a confession, to leave John the Baptist men’s Skeet without the written blessings, to make the monastic cut, to assume a pectoral cross and communion. Also the activity of the priest will be reviewed by the diocesan court.
“I have repeatedly had your trust with pastoral conversation and eye to eye and in the presence of other people on the content of your public sermons and speeches. You gave me a promise to mend his ways, but I have transgressed the oath”, — reads the statement of Metropolitan Kirill of Yekaterinburg and Verkhoturye.
Record of the sermon Series appeared on the Internet. In it, he said that Russians want to put in the “e-camp of Satan”, “the wicked put on the self-isolation” and deprived of “freedom and work”. He also urged not to obey the secular authorities and the Church, and cursed those who close the churches during the pandemic.
Sergiy (Romanov) was the spiritual father of the Chairman of the Duma Committee on international Affairs Natalia Polonskaya.
Earlier in the service was forbidden, a priest Andrey Kuraev. This decision was made in connection with a public insult Kuraev memory of Archpriest Alexander Ageikin, who died of coronavirus.
