Сахалин

We report from one of the main Moscow churches -- Piemen the Great church near the Novoslobodskaya underground station. In 2009 all of a sudden a new prior to this church was appointed. It was the bishop Arkhady Afonin who is known church-wide for his bad reputation. Lots of scandals are connected with this immoral person during his episcopacy of the South Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands, the town of Tomsk and also being vicar at the Nizhny Novgorod eparchy. Those are misappropriation of budgetary sums, foul language at public, homosexual connections including seducing young parishioners and lay brothers. The governor of Tomsk region Victor Kress has addressed personally Patriarch Aleksy and achieved dismissing Arkhady Afonin away from Tomsk. Nothing has been heard about him for several years, they said he had retired because of his health problems as far back as 2001. And now this seducer, debauchee, drunkard and homosexual appears again in the very heart of Moscow with his behavior being still the same... During public divine services he is boorish and rude towards parishioners and the priests and chorus, he humiliates people. With the connivance of bishop Arkhady the priests reduce services -- instead of an hour and a half they last 30-40 minutes! All those facts make the faithful truly indignant. It is absolutely clear that such a person is not only unworthy of being a prior at one of the main capital churches but also he cannot be an orthodox priest as well. Just his <b>...</b>
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