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Patriarch Kirill gives one position after another, as evidenced by the personnel decisions adopted at the next meeting of the Synod of the ROC MP, which took place on October 22. The scandalously famous archimandrite of the Sretensky monastery, the "confessor of Putin" Tikhon (Shevkunov) will become Bishop Yegoryevsky. And this means that the “Lubyansk” party receives additional trump cards in the struggle for power within the dominant denomination. The church is suffocating in the iron arms of the state. And there is no doubt that Shevkunov will do everything possible so that these arms become stronger.

The public knows about. Tikhon on the campaign against the TIN, on the promotion of a tough state in the film “The Death of the Empire. Byzantine lesson ”, according to the sensational book“ Trecknitable Saints ”and much less-according to articles in the Russian Order now banned publication, once the printed organ of the RNE. To the positions of the executive secretary of the Patriarchal Council for Culture, the top manager is engaged exclusively with PR events and did nothing significant to preserve cultural heritage. The project for the construction of the newly used inside the ancient walls of the Sretenskaya monastery once again speaks of his attitude to the true, and not invented past.

The "Lubyansk" party in every possible way poisoned cultural Orthodoxy within the church fence. It is enough to recall the collision on about. John Privalova in Arkhangelsk Metropolitan Daniel (Dorovsky). Now his guardsmen in the person of the bishop of Kotlas and Vasily Vasily (Danilov) are fighting with the followers of the sane Orthodoxy in Velsk, they are rude, try to drive out of the temple.

It is possible that on the episcopal chirotony about. Tikhona people to the liturgical questioning “axios”, that is, “worthy”, will sing “Anaxios”, that is, “non -worthy”. But who is following such liturgical subtleties today? Here, Ignatius Tarasov serves in Karelia, to whom they sang “inaudible”, and nothing flourishes. The decision was made at the very top (it is possible that at the level of the Kremlin administration) and is not subject to appeal.

Together with Fr. The Tikhon of the Bishop’s San was awarded another supporter of the “Lubyansk” team, Abbot Paramon (Golubka), the governor of the Moscow Don Monastery. Vladyka is engaged in the promotion of secondary shrines and exhibition activities that bring a good income. His sister is the right hand of Daniel (Dorovsky).

It is possible that the ascent of the "Lubyansky" bishop to Olympus will lead to a split within Russian Orthodoxy, to the emergence of another branch of "non -memorable". The Russian apocalypse has a sad tradition of repeating. But still, there remains the hope that Patriarch Kirill will be able to somehow straighten the situation. Although this hope is melting before our eyes.

From other personnel decisions, it is worth noting the displacement from the post of secretary of the Synodal Commission on the canonization of Abbot Damaskin (Orlovsky). The latter became famous for throwing three dozen new saints, sufferers for faith under the Soviet regime. The criteria that were guided by Damaskin caused some fuss in people who know people. So, he believed that if a person is really holy, he should not break in the basements of the Lubyanka. And the fact that the Belief brought to the insanity of the believer forced to sign some papers, became decisive in the issue of reckoning him to the face of saints.

The memory of the victims of the Gulag lives in the church fence, but recently finds less and less feeding. Perhaps the newly appointed secretary of the commission Archpriest Vladimir Vorobyov, the rector of St. Tikhonovsky Humanitarian University, will be able to change something for the better. It will be able to remind the churches that with creeping Stalinism, with Lubyanka, with its direct heirs cannot be included in a close union - this is disastrous.

In addition to personnel movements, the Synodals adopted a number of decrees of a general church nature. In particular, they held the head of the Metropolitan Hilarion of Metropolitan (Alfeev) in his work on the participation of the Moscow Patriarchate in the All -Orthodox Council scheduled for 2016. There are serious discrepancies between the local churches related to the calendar, marriage issues and recognition of autocephaly (independence), the procedure for its proclamation. The All -Orthodox Pre -Emergency Meeting, which took place from October 10 to October 17 this year in Shambezi (Switzerland), showed that the consensus on these problems has not yet been achieved.

Among the definitions of the Synod, it is worth noting the decision to convene an extraordinary bishop's cathedral in February 2016. The word "extraordinary" recorded in the magazines of the meeting of the Synod, in the context of the bishopric of Shevkunov is alarming. This character painfully wants in history ...

Photo: Russia. Moscow. November 4. The rector of the Sretensky Stavropigial Monastery Archimandrite Tikhon (George Shevkunov), the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill and Russian President Vladimir Putin (from left to right) during a visit to the Orthodox Romanovs interactive exhibition, dedicated to the 400th anniversary of the Imperial Dynasty, in the Central Military District "Manege". Photo by Alexey Nikolsky/TASS