MOSCOW, 29 Sep – RIA Novosti. The head of the Synodal Department for Church and society and the media Vladimir Legoyda said that the decision banning Protodeacon Andrei Kuraev in the service of a legitimate and accepted “in good conscience”.
Earlier, Patriarch Kirill signed a decree temporarily banning the service Kuraev “in connection with a public insult to the memory of” former Abbot of the Epiphany Cathedral of Moscow, Archpriest Alexander Ageikin, and “given the previous acts, for which there had been complaints”.
the Abbot elohovskom Cathedral, Archpriest Alexander Ageikin died April 21 from complications of coronavirus.
