An employee of the temple of Sophia the wisdom of God in Secondary Gardener, in which, on 19 April, found actor Ivan Okhlobystin, said his presence at the closed of the Easter service. Her words “Moscow Komsomolets”.
“what claim? Because the Church was father John Okhlobystin? He San not removed, we assign it to the priesthood, although he is not an employee of our parish,” said the interlocutor of the newspaper.
“He often visited our Church when I was a priest. It is known, that is why it came” she explained, adding that Okhlobystin sometimes led master classes in Sunday school.
According to the employee of the temple, Okhlobystin calls for their citizens to visit the temples during a pandemic coronavirus “sums up all of the clergy”. She stressed that the service was attended by “all members of the Church with the families.”
The Easter service took place in the night of Sunday, April 19, despite the current ban on mass gatherings because of the threat of the spread of coronavirus. In the service of the notice Okhlobystin. Leaving the temple, he attacked the journalist trying to take away her phone, saying: “what you shoot, what you shoot now?” The temple is situated in the center of Moscow opposite the Kremlin.
