>Schema monk Sergius (Nicolai Romanov)
>>former police officer, Romanov served 13 years in a prison colony for murder before joining the clergy (a claim his supporters deny)
>ultra-conservative views
>criticized laws against domestic violence
>called coronavirus a 'pseudo-pandemic'
>claims that a “satanic Jewish Masonic regime” has been established in Russia
>suggested the Antichrist would soon emerge in Russia
"Preaching all sorts of conspiracy theories, dancing nuns, singing “Toast for the Russian people” with an accordion, practice of exorcism, veneration of Stalin, along with tzar Nicholas II - one of the most odious priests in Russia"
>has prominent followers among politicians and sport figures
>founded a large monastery/convent complex in the Urals region, near where communists murdered the last tzar
>after preaching for publicly cursing other priests who closed their churches on Easter due to coronavirus, an ecclesiastical court and and Metropolitan Kirill defrocked and banned him
>Ural Cossack guards let the priest take refuge in the convent vacated by its mother superior and nuns
>hundreds of pilgrims started flocking to the convent
>began posting series of sermon videos online.
>preached that the authorities wanted to put Russians into a "Satan's electronic camp," referring to tools like electronic passes used to enforce isolation in Russia.
>will be controlled via "deadly electronic chips" and artificial intelligence under the pretext of vaccination.
>“First, testing, then vaccination, then chipization and the fascist regime”
>Local police launched an investigation after deeming that his sermons contained false information and instigated hatred while minors present.
>Russian police stormed the convent and "detained" the abbott December 29, 2020
>has remained in a state of "detention" now extended until August 29, 2021
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