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Archpriest Chaplin is set off from the leadership of the Company

December 25, 2015 Svetlana Solodovnik

Only about. Vsevolod intended to make the center of attraction from Russia for all thirsting for the reconstruction of the world, as the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church removed him from the post of head of the Synodal Department on the relationship of the Church and Society. Official reasons - in connection with optimization, two departments, “in society” and “in the media”, merge, so one chairman becomes superfluous.

It is noble, given that Chaplin’s resignation has long been demanded not only by some unknown laity people, but most recently they tried to raise the question officially-at the general meeting of the Minsk diocese. Metropolitan of Minsk and Zaslavsky Paul was asked to petition the Holy Synod to remove Chaplin from the post of chairman of the Synodal Department for the interaction of the Church and Society, since “his aggressive public statements with calls for war, incompatible with Christian creed, are perceived as the official position of the Church”, discrediting “all church fullness”.

Indeed, about. Vsevolod literally did not deny himself anything: he called on our heads suffering, because we acidified in a “trouble -free, comfortable life”, agreed that the war would not have prevented us. It is proposed to destroy terrorists, as well as organizers and sponsors of terrorist attacks “without any court”. He called for a “sacred war” against the clinic where they have abortion. And more recently, he advised in family relationships to rely primarily on a domostroy. A well -known thing, if the woman is not beaten, what is the use of her ...

Metropolitan Pavel of the Minsk Assembly refused: both the media, they say, are distorting, tearing the words out of context, and everyone has the right to write to the Patriarch about anything, so there is no need to contact the Synod on behalf of the assembly. But, obviously, this was the last straw. Probably, the patriarch was tired of listening from the environment of a complaint about Chaplin - after all, whatever one may say, the official voice of the church in society, he really discredited “all church fullness” every now and then. And if in Minsk they publicly began to discuss this issue, then they can be in any other place - is it worth waiting? Father Vsevolod turned into a too odious figure.

In addition, recently he has increasingly attacking the Constitution: she was taken without the active participation of Orthodox people, which means that it is illegitimate. In the release of the video blog “Tsargrad TV”, Chaplin said: “This consensus was accepted without us, which means that it is not, which means that we can be canceled.” And he continued: “All decisions made without the participation of socially active believers will have to be canceled, it will be necessary to reconsider, including decisions that concern the basics of the social system.” Well, just some oppositionist, and look, will go to Bolotnaya.

The authorities and recently have recently begun to cross the Constitution, but that is, power, or even some Chaplin. It is possible that the patriarch was hinted from this side.

And here you are! Before Chaplin had time to remove from his post, he immediately turned into a dissident. It turns out that he has long -standing disagreements with the Patriarch, Fr. Vsevolod believes that "the tonality in relations with the state that the Church accepts more and more is wrong, we need to act more critically in relation to the immoral and unfair actions of the authorities." Evona! Didn’t he a couple of years ago, immediately after the tragedy in Krymsk, he said that in Russia it is necessary to “ensure a situation that is natural for the Orthodox society, in which the sovereign, an official, always stands in both property and social status above the petitioners”? Did he not propose to give the ruler the right to “act as it is not spelled out in any law”? And then suddenly - "act critically"! And the decisions, they say, are made in the church not collegial - this is wrong.

In general, it seems, Father Vsevolod is confused. For many years he was a man personally devoted to Patriarch Kirill, who is faithful to Sancho Pansa. But some commentators persistently say about the struggle of church clans, about the close split inside the dominant faith. Does Chaplin see himself as a leader of one of these clans - the first thing Russia is, and there, even before the reconstruction of the world is not far from? It is possible that we are only at the beginning of the spinning intrigue.

Photo Zurab Javahadze / TASS