Gone into schism

Clergy of the Udmurt diocese, Rev. Sergius Kondakov, prot. Mikhail Karpeev and priest. Alexander Malykh announced that they were leaving the Russian Orthodox Church for the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad (the jurisdiction of Metropolitan Agafangel) - part of the ROCOR that did not accept the Act of Canonical Communion with the Russian Orthodox Church MP (Agafangel parishes are located mainly in Ukraine).

In March, these priests, having accused Patriarch Kirill of servility to the authorities, ecumenism, striving for union with the Vatican and other sins, announced that they would stop remembering him during the liturgy (which means an actual departure into schism). The accusations against the Russian Church set out in the letter largely repeat the position of the former Bishop of Chukotka Diomede, expressed in 2007.

The Patriarchate stated that they were ready “for a broad discussion,” but the discussion never happened.

In a new letter to Patriarch Kirill, the Izhevsk residents repeated the previously expressed demand for “the immediate convening of a Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church in accordance with the canons and rules of the holy fathers, at which the hierarchy of the Moscow Patriarchate, who had departed from holy Orthodoxy, would bring repentance for the sins of Sergianism and ecumenism, and would free church administration for archpastors, impeccable from a canonical point of view."