Declericalization "Creature"

A foreign agent was recognized as a video blogger, who positioned himself as a clergyman who fled from the Russian Orthodox Church

From January 13, Sergey Vladimirovich Kirsanov, a well-known Orthodox and partly a secular audience, a video blogger under the nickname “cleric”, claims to be the honorary title of “first clergyman-foreign agent” in the Russian Federation. His YouTube channel by the time of writing this article has more than 208 thousand subscribers. For comparison, the official channel of the Russian Orthodox Church has only 71 thousand, and the financial RF Channel “SPA” has - 109 thousand. The “pastoral” content in Russian is not particularly popular in YouTube and the indicators of the “cleric” channel could be considered more than successful in their field.

But why could they “be” “claiming”? Isn't Sergey Kirsanov an authentic clergy of the Orthodox tradition? Let's try to figure it out. Actually church,

Sergey Kirsanov pays a minimum of attention to religious problems, although he present himself as a professional theologian with the Italian Catholic education

And sometimes puts on a cash. His “chip” is a combination of rigid political content (before - anti -Putin, and now - wider - anti -Russian) with a blessed clerical way, with intonations of church sermon. But content gradually prevails over the image, the content overpowers the form: in the rollers of recent months, the “cleric” appears in worldly shirts and t -shirts. The heroes of his last videos are Kyiv journalist Auder Muzhdabaev and Dmitry Ivanov (Kamikadze Dead). The former (?) Father calls not to believe in “good Russians” and proclaims himself “Russophobe, or rather, a mesorusist”, in which every Russian causes “contempt, disgust”. Even in Russian, the "cleric" began to speak with a small accent resembling characteristic intonations of the English language. In general, it seems that “replay”.

Among the objects of criticism on the channel is now not so much the leaders of the Russian Federation and propagandists (at one time he was very promoted in the war with Vladimir Solovyov), how many former fighters in the struggle, which turned out to be not radical enough - Alexander Nevzorov , Vladimir Osechkin , Julia Latynina , Dmitry Bykov and - oh gods! - Alexei Armovich . With the “ino -agent” Nevzorov, who, by the way, is very close to Sergey, in Italy, a large -scale “holivar” happened in Italy. After the full -time fighter with clericalism introduced the cleric channel among the suspicious, Kirsanov threatened Nevzorov with a trial in the Italian court. But even more scary - he promised to publish the correspondence of Nevzorov with the “curators”, to connect “the most scandalous journalists who are not stupid propagandists, but of seasoned journalists, about whom he does not even realize that I have a connection.” “Holivar” has been 5 months, but promises have not yet been fulfilled ...

Sergei Kirsanov avoids accurate answers to the questions of the audience about his church-canonic status. The term "cleric" has a very wide meaning- this is a generalized name of all church and clergymen, from a reader to a bishop. According to the Russian Orthodox Church , Kirsanov was never ordained a holy dignity or tonsured monasticism, although some media confronts him with a complete namesake, serving in the Solnechnogorsk district of the Moscow region. Our hero was born in the Smolensk region in 1986, at the age of 18 he entered the Smolensk Theological Seminary (the Smolensk diocese was then ruled by Metropolitan Kirill (Gundyaev)), but he was expelled from it, served as an altar in one of the temples of Smolensk. After that, he entered the Optina Desert and called himself the cellon of the current confessor of Patriarch Fr. Elijah (Nozdrina), but was expelled from the monastery "on accusations of a moral character." In 2011-16. He studied in Moscow, at the Orthodox St. Tikhonovsky Humanitarian University, but was expelled from the last year for failure to appear at the session.

Already in 2019, having moved to Italy and opening his video blog, the “cleric” called himself a teacher of a certain Catholic University,

But it is difficult to believe in it. As well as in the fact that it is accepted in one of the “canonical Greek churches” in Italy and “heads the monastery”. In Italy, there is only one such jurisdiction - the Metropolitan of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, which includes only one male monastery, but neither in the list of clergy of the Metropolis, nor in the list of inhabitants of the monastery Sergey Kirsanov is listed. Living in the vicinity of Rimini, he, according to parishioners, did not visit the temples of Constantinople or Moscow Patriarchates in this city. However, with the Russian Orthodox Church, he resolutely broke and calls it “pseudo -religious totalitarian sect”.

The “rector of the monastery” does not impose on anyone’s “spirituality”, so all these canonical intricacies with church status for him, perhaps, are overly. The slogan of his channel is “Applied Ruso-” and “moron-” Fagia! No "spirituality"! " “I speak in my blog not as a priest, not as a confessor, but as a person. I never asked, I do not ask my subscribers to contact me "father", ”Sergey emphasizes. And this position, now strengthened by the status of a foreign agent, deserves respect. The hoaxes with church status and monastic feat look like a rudiment of the “past life” of our hero in the Russian Orthodox Church, from which he is gradually freed.