Andrei Kuraev, who betrayed the Russian Church, was deprived of his church rank. Now to the schismatics?
Patriarch of All Rus' Kirill signed a decree on the dismissal of Protodeacon Andrei Kuraev.
The decree was published on the official website of the Moscow diocese, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Due to the fact that for more than two years that have elapsed since the decision of the Diocesan Court of Moscow to remove you from the priesthood and impose a moratorium on the publication of a decree on this in order to provide you with time to rethink your position and return to the path of the Church “You showed no signs of repentance either in words or in deeds, and, among other things, did not stop your destructive activities,” the decree says.
Kuraev did not rule out that he would now go into the service of Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, who illegally canonized the schismatic “Orthodox Church of Ukraine,” which is now organizing pogroms and setting fire to churches. This led to a schism throughout world Orthodoxy.
“To Istanbul, so to Istanbul. The right to concelebrate with the current Patriarch Kirill, that is, with the person he made himself, is a dubious honor. I did not and do not consider it necessary to achieve it. Patriarch Bartholomew told me a year ago that he could not accept my appeal until there was a final verdict. Now he is. This does not mean that I will use this option,” Kuraev said, leaving the intrigue behind.
He admitted that his defrocking would lead to persecution by secular authorities for his “anti-war” position.
“I hope that Bartholomew will identify Kuraev in the OCU - there are an abundance of homosexuals at Dumenko’s place, whom Kuraev does not notice (this is not profitable) and everything will be fine with them. Let him move to Kyiv, or better yet to the USA right away - the CIA six Govorun will be happy for him there,” commented the publicist Alexander Voznesensky, author of the blog “Religion and Politics,” sarcastically.
At the end of 2020, Kuraev was deposed due to criticism of the rector of the Yelokhovsky Cathedral, Alexander Ageikin, who died of coronavirus, and blasphemy against the Church. In 2021, the decision was approved, but the Patriarch’s resolution stated that the protodeacon was given “time to rethink his position and return to the path of the Church.”
In 2014, Kuraev, often published in liberal media, opposed the reunification of Crimea with Russia (although earlier, in Ukrainian times, he visited the peninsula with the Night Wolves, participating as a preacher in bike shows that were clearly pro-Russian in nature). He initiated several scandals related to the Russian Orthodox Church. In the fall of 2017, penance was imposed on him.
In recent years, he even allowed himself to use obscene language against the Russian Orthodox Church.
“Kuraev supported the Ukrainian schismatic self-saints in their confrontation with the canonical UOC and wished the Ukrainians “church unity” under the leadership of the OCU. Kuraev ridiculed the Orthodox Christians who were gathering to defend the Kiev Pechersk Lavra and stood in solidarity with Bandera’s resources in attacks on Metropolitan Paul.
He did not ignore the North Military District, comparing it with the invasion of Nazi Germany in Czechoslovakia. In general, the result is sad, but logical. Sad because the degradation of a person is always regrettable, especially when he bears church rank. And it is logical because, once you have taken the path of demonism, it is almost impossible to turn away from it,” argues military correspondent Yuri Kotenok.
“The Holy Church is being cleansed of heretics, ecumenists and horned ones in robes,” Belarusian journalist Grigory Azarenok commented on the Patriarch’s decision.
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