Priest arrested in Jewish Autonomous Region on suspicion of pedophilia
In the Jewish Autonomous Region, the rector of the Church of the Holy Prophet Elijah in the village of Amurzet, Oktyabrsky district, Hieromonk Spiridon is suspected of molesting minors. On November 25, the court arrested him for two months. As reported on the website of the Birobidzhan diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church, Hieromonk Spiridon (in the world Yuri Abramov), by decree of the diocesan bishop, was exempted from all church obediences in the Birobidzhan diocese.