Media: about the "exposures of the Russian Orthodox Church" Deacon Baranov

The open letter of Deacon Sergei Baranov, Patriarch Kirill, in which he, in protest against the “non -legal sentence in relation to Pussy Riot”, announces “about his complete and unconditional breakdown of relations” with the Russian Orthodox Church and asks “about taking off the sacred dignity”, made a lot of noise in the media, reported by arguments.ru .

The publication notes that the bloggers began to find out who this deacon was, and the details are known for the details that somewhat reduced the pathos of the Tambov demarch.

Firstly, it turned out that the priest of the rams is still not. In his blog on Facebook, the deacon explains that he was ordained a sanctuary in 1994, but in 2003 he was “credited for the state from the right to move to another diocese, which he did not use.”

The publication explains that, even if you do not take into account that the deacons only help priests, but they can neither serve nor perform the sacraments independently, “counting for the state” suggests that such a cleric, remaining in the bosom of the Church, is generally deprived of the right to participate in the services and thus engage in his professional activity. At the same time, the state is sent, as a rule, either for old age (obviously not the case), or for serious misconduct, "incompatible with the fulfillment of duties imposed on a clergyman."

Thus, Sergey Baranov has been the minister of the Russian Orthodox Church for almost 10 years only by formal signs.

The publication notes that in his Facebook, until the beginning of August, quite rare records are followed. Since August this year, 95% of the records in the journal are devoted to the process over Pussy Riot. According to the arguments.ru, the bloggers came to the conclusion that his letter is not a unique text, but the Mix, compiled from the column of the Echo of Moskvy observer Anton Orekh, the post of Svetlana Goryacheva and the program of Nikolai Svanidze. In an interview with the Russian News Service, Mr. Baranov confirmed the suspicions of bloggers, saying that he really used the texts of these authors when drawing up his letter, obeying the advice of “one very good friend”. According to Baranov, the initial version of his letter was “filled with theological content”, therefore, in order to avoid incorrect interpretations, it was decided to convey his thoughts to those around him with a more secular language.

The publication notes that it remains only to guess what kind of "unknown friend" was. Baranov himself does not call him.

Thus, the very fact of the letter is not possible to dispute, but to speak on the example of a letter of a landscape deacon about any split in the Russian Orthodox Church and the “appearance of honest priests” who are ready to leave a dignity as a sign of protest against the Pussy Riot sentence, and decided to tell the world “the whole truth”, at least prematurely, concludes the publication.