The disgraced priest Sverdlov will be allowed to serve if he plays

Priest Dmitry Sverdlov, who was banned from serving for 5 years, believes that he was fired for his social activity. He told PublicPost about this. The Chairman of the Synodal Department for the Interaction of the Church and the Society of the Moscow Patriarchate Vsevolod Chaplin believes that Sverdlov was sent for the state because he had done an unthinkable thing.

The priest Sverdlov was removed on January 14 by Metropolitan Krutitsky and Kolomensky Juvenal, the text of the decree at number 154 was posted on the official website of the Moscow diocese. The text of the decree Krutka: "Priest Dimitri Sverdlov for a unauthorized leaving the parish is prohibited in the priesthood for 5 years and is charged for the state."

Sverdlov gained fame after he participated as an observer in the State Duma elections in 2011 and even recorded falsification in his site, went to Crimean after flood as a journalist, as a priest, participated in the seal of the dead. He was one of those who said that there were more victims than officials called. But the most unexpected act of Sverdlov was his statement, in which he expressed his readiness to apologize to the arrested girls from the Pussy Riot punk group for "the frantic hatred that suddenly part of the Orthodox community showed in connection with the events in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior." In April 2012, Sverdlov became the hero of the heading of the magazine " Big City " "Priests of the Big City".

After Sverdlov found out that he was banned, he wrote on his page on Facebook: “Friends. My career in the Russian Orthodox Church was over yesterday. Today, a comrade called and said that the decree was posted on the website of the Moscow diocese that I was simultaneously sent for the state and under the ban for 5 years. I didn’t accept my condolences later.”

PublicPost tried to find out from Sverdlov the very details. The priest in a conversation turned out to be a cheerful person: he introduced himself as an employee of the prosecutor's office and said that Father Dmitry was now busy, chained in the basement, he was a little tortured, he gives evidence.

Dmitry Sverdlov, priest:

“I only learned about this decision yesterday. There is nothing to comment on. The ban on serving is a regular practice, but the issue of this is solved individually, negotiations are underway. If the priest and his bishop are a serious conflict, then these decisions are posted on the diocese. If you look, there is a service other than me, I don’t know the decision in my case, of course, it was connected in my case, of course, connected with my What to do next, I do not know, I will think, I am in some confusion. "

Vsevolod Chaplin, Chairman of the Synodal Department for the Interaction of the Church and the Society of the Moscow Patriarchate:

"Father Dmitry, having received an appointment to a new parish, did not serve there, this is an absolutely unthinkable thing for the priest. Wherever you were sent, you like it or not, you must fulfill your duty to God and the people to whom you are sent. In the case of Dmitry’s father, repentance may change based on him. But so far it is, which is, which is."

Dmitry Sverdlov was the rector of the Peter and Paul Church of the village of Pavlovskoye, Domodedovo district, in September 2012, Sverdlov was transferred to the staff of all the holy city of Domodedovo.