Patriarch Kirill approved the defrocking of Archpriest Uminsky – Kommersant
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Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus’ approved the decision of the Moscow Diocesan Court to deprive Archpriest Alexei Uminsky of his holy orders, Novaya Gazeta reported, citing a source. Later information TASS And “RIA News” confirmed a source in the Russian Orthodox Church.
“Today, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill approved the decision of the Moscow Diocesan Court to defrock Archpriest Alexei Uminsky,” a TASS source said. There is no decree on the deprivation of Alexei Uminsky on the website of the Moscow City Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church.
In November 2023, Alexey Uminsky, in an interview with the YouTube channel “Living Nail,” advised believers who do not want to pray “for victory and support of the North Military District” to look for priests who “pray more for peace than for victory.” At the beginning of January 2024, Patriarch Kirill removed Alexei Uminsky from the rectorship of the Church of the Holy Life-Giving Trinity in Moscow, where he had served since 1994.
January 13 Diocesan Court of Moscow decided deprive Alexei Uminsky of the rank of archpriest. The basis for the decision was “refusal to fulfill the Patriarchal blessing to read the prayer for Holy Rus’ at the Divine Liturgy.”
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