Yaroslavl priest became chairman of the collective farm

Shareholders of the collective farm "Kolos" in the village of Gorinskoye, Danilovsky district, Yaroslavl region, elected a local priest as chairman of the household. The Yaroslavl diocese blessed the rector of the Holy Trinity Church in Gorinsky Island. Gregory to combine the post of rector of the temple and chairman of the collective farm.

Plans for bringing the economy out of the crisis were developed by the priest together with his altar boy Maxim Yanov, a graduate of the Yaroslavl branch of MESI. Father Grigory intends to increase the collective farm herd of dairy cows from two hundred to three hundred. The priest is going to fight drunkenness on the farm by firing workers who drink. "Among other measures are the purchase of food additives for cows to improve the quality and quantity of milk, the sale of wheat stale in barns and the purchase of mixed feed with this money," Father Grigory told REGNUM news agency .

Having agreed to lead the collective farm, the priest hopes to preserve his own temple in this way: in other villages of the region, farms are liquidated or become bankrupt, residents move to other places, there is no one to maintain rural churches, and churches perish. After the restoration of the economy, Father Gregory intends to engage only in serving God.

Sources

• Yaroslavl priest got a job as a collective farm chairman // IA REGNUM. 2004. March 23.