Coronavirus: Covid-denying priest Father Sergei Romanov seizes Russian monastery

[Eugene]

Source: BBC

Coronavirus: Covid-denying priest Father Sergei Romanov seizes Russian monastery

18 June 2020

An ultraconservative Russian priest who denies coronavirus exists has taken over a women's monastery by force.

Father Sergei Romanov entered the Sredneuralsk convent outside the city of Yekaterinburg on Tuesday.

The mother superior and several nuns have left and armed guards are patrolling the site.

Father Sergei has stated church authorities "will have to storm the monastery" if they want him to leave.

Police visited the site on Wednesday but made no arrests.

The controversial cleric was barred from preaching in April and then stripped of the right to wear a cross in May after he encouraged the faithful to disobey public health orders.

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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53091295


Father Sergei Romanov has encouraged people to disobey public health orders (Getty Images)

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. GOP will give him sainthood.

[blm]

2. This is nuts.

[OAITW r.2.0]

3. Orthadox religion in Russia, Putin style.

Falwell wants the USA Religion franchise....

[regnaD kciN]

6. Except that even the Orthodox Church there is disciplining him...

(BTW, there's no such thing as the "Orthadox." )

[soothsayer]

7. Putin, Rasputin

Whatevs

[dhill926]

4. well...storm the monastery...

and kick his fucking ass out then....

[Warpy]

5. He's totally bonkers even by their religious standards

My guess is that they're going to leave him there and hope he gets tired of sniffing all the nuns' underwear at some point and leaves. Or runs out of food. Or something.

It looks bad to wreck a nunnery and kill a priest, even a mad one, so they'll probably wait him out.

[keithbvadu2]

8. Takes over religious property by force.

Takes over religious property by force.

He learned from Trump.

[Iggo]

9. Aw, look at him.

Nega-Rasputin.