Depardieu accepted Orthodoxy and chose the confessors of the "confessor of Putin" in the confessors

The French actor Gerard Depardieu, who received Russian citizenship in 2013, accepted Orthodoxy, RIA Novosti was told in the Parisian Cathedral of Alexander Nevsky, where the sacrament of baptism took place on September 4. The interlocutor of the agency did not give details.

In an interview with TASS, the representative of the Council said that the artist’s close friends were present at the rite, and the event itself became unexpected, but "very pleasant." The interlocutor of the agency refused to name the name received by the department at baptism.

According to the French weekly Valeurs Actuels , about 30 people were attended by the sacrament. In the first part of the ceremony, after the prayer of the expulsion of evil spirits, Depardieu renounced Satan. Then he confirmed his unity with Christ three times, and under the "solemn chants of the choir and the prayers of the gathered" he "sprinkled abundantly" by holy water.

The actor told the publication that on the same day he became the godfather of the little girl. He explained the desire to accept Orthodoxy with love for the Orthodox liturgy and connections with the Orthodox clergy. He called his spiritual father the Metropolitan of Pskov and Porkhovsky Tikhon (Shevkunov), whom the media is called the confessor of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

At the same time, the actor admitted that in the near future he wants to accept Judaism. Previously, Depardieu showed interest in Islam, Buddhism and Hinduism. Speaking of Catholicism, he noted that he admires Paps Benedict XVI and John Paul II, but he is “annoyed” by the Catholic liturgy.

At the beginning of the year, the “Orthodox” movement of forty magpies, known for its radicality, demanded from the first channel to delete the Christmas issue of “Evening Urgant” with the participation of Zherar Depardieu. In it, the presenter Ivan Urgant showed a collage with actor Nicholas Cage, who has a birthday on January 7, in the form of a baby Jesus, surrounded by "Volkhvami" - directors Nikita Mikhalkov, Stephen Spilberg and Quentin Tarantino.

Later, listening to the discussion of the department about Russian cuisine and the preparation of a milk pig, Urgant compared the gesturing actor with Virgin Mary, who rinses Jesus. “Yes, it is, this is a victim. The pig will finish not on the cross, but in the dish, but this is the same sacrifice,” said Depardieu. Activists of the "forty forty" considered all this "conscious mockery of the Christian holiday of the Nativity of Christ and blasphemy in order to insult the feelings of believers."

And the State Duma deputy Nikolai Zemtsov asked the prosecutor general of Russia Igor Krasnov to open a criminal case on the insult of the feelings of believers (148 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and initiate the case under Article 282 of the Russian Federation of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Exitness of hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity." The story ended with the fact that the showman apologized to everyone who considers themselves offended, and asked the believers to "withdraw curses."