Abbot Sergiy (Romanov), seized Sredneuralskaya convent, explained the worship of Joseph Stalin, whose portrait hangs in the room of the priest. It is reported Ura.ru.
According to the newspaper, Abbot said that Stalin destroyed sodomy and raised the country.
Also in the cell of St. Sergius, are portraits of Tsar Nicholas II, the peasant Grigory Rasputin and Archimandrite Vikentiy.
Earlier, the priest responded to the accusations in the “capture” Sredneuralskaya convent “sporitelnitsa bread.” He made a video message in which he explained that he remained in the monastery for nuns, his children. Abbot stressed that it continues to serve as counseled by the Church fathers.
on the Afternoon of 17 June, the monastery was visited by FSB officers and the police. Security forces arrived after reports that the abode is guarded by Cossacks, who responded to the call of father Sergius. In turn, the priest says that the police checked everything and left, but in the monastery everything is quiet and no armed men. In the monastery, as reported by the journalists, arrived several hundred members supporting chiyoumen.
Father Sergiy conducts the service despite an official ban in the service of the denial of the existence of coronavirus in one of his sermons, the police found signs of incitement of hatred or enmity. He was removed from the control Sredneuralskaya convent the abbess Barbara, was appointed chief officer of the abode of the Holy Synod in 2005, also in the monastery is not allowed directed there by the diocese of the priest.
