MOSCOW, may 3 / Radio Sputnik. The Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Kirill has suspended Archpriest Vladimir Chuvikin from the administration of the Patriarchal metochion of the Nikolo-Perervinsky monastery of the capital due to violations of the order of worship in the Holy and Bright week. This was reported on the website of the Moscow city diocese.
up To this point on penalties for the violation of the Patriarchal decree by coronavirus infection have been reported.”Archpriest Vladimir Chuvikin rector the churches of the Patriarchal metochion of the Nikolo-Perervinsky monastery in Moscow, in connection with the breach of my instructions concerning the order of worship in the period of Holy week and the glorious resurrection of Christ removed from the management of the above Patriarchal representation to ascertain all the circumstances of the incident”, – stated in the decree, available on the website.
Even before the Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Kirill issued a decree “On liability for failure to comply with guidelines aimed at limiting the spread of coronavirus infections.” It emphasizes that if the failure to comply with the orders of the hierarchy will entail infection with coronavirus and subsequent death, the perpetrator can be brought to Church court, and in some cases – to the Church-administrative responsibility “with deliberate disregard of measures to protect people from mass infection with a deadly disease.”
the Moscow Patriarchate at the request of the chief sanitary doctor of the capital ordered the clergy of Moscow and Moscow region on April 13 to hold services without the participation of the congregation. The restrictions were extended until further order of the hierarchy. Similar measures were introduced in many dioceses of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Earlier radio Sputnik reported that the Metropolitan of predicted orders in the Orthodox Church after leaving COVID.
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