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The Russian Orthodox Church deprived the priesthood of the bishop of the Cherepovets Flavian
The Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church deprived the dignity of the former bishop of the Cherepovets and Belozersky Flavian (Mitrofanov), who is a witness in the drug case. Flavian left Russia to the UK after a search was held in his apartment. The decision of the Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church is published on the site.
"To admit him guilty of actions incompatible with his stay in the sacred dignity. On the basis of the rules of the Saints, the Apostle 25 and 42 decided to break him out of the sacred dignity," the message said.
The Russian Orthodox Church writes that during the period of the control of the Cherepovets diocese, Flavian allegedly attracted unknown people who conducted "fraudulent, and in some cases blasphemous activities" to get money from parishioners.
- In August, Bishop Flavian was freed from the control of the Cherepovets diocese. The media reported on the initiation of a criminal case and the searches in the apartment of a bishop in St. Petersburg, where they allegedly discovered drugs. Flavian lawyers stated that the information about the drugs "did not correspond to reality and defeats his honor and dignity."
- Flavian in an interview with Radio Liberty told how he moved from "Calm London" to Vologda, where he became Bishop of Cherepovetsky. The bishop said that an FSB officer was interested in his foreign accounts.
- According to the website of the Russian Orthodox Church, Mitrofanov was born in Saratov and studied at the Saratov Theological Seminary. Since 2007 - the full -time cleric of the Assumption Cathedral in London. Mitrofanov was admitted to the Vologda diocese in 2014.