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The Izmaylovsky Court of Moscow found former schema-abbot Sergius guilty of incitement to suicide, arbitrariness and violation of the right to freedom of religion. He was sentenced to 3 years and 6 months, the state prosecutor demanded four years in a general regime colony, writes TASS.
The court found that “Romanov committed arbitrariness (…) being defrocked, excommunicated, living in a monastery without permission, persuading a number of persons who perceived him as a person exercising organizational and administrative functions to commit suicide.” Romanov denies guilt, according to him, he did not incline to suicide, but “to the willingness to sacrifice life, to a religious feat.” He also stated that he himself would like to “repeat the path of Christ.”
Nikolai Romanov was defrocked in the summer of 2020 for violating the priestly oath, monastic vows, a number of apostolic rules and church canons, and on September 10 last year he was excommunicated. He refused to leave the Sredneuralsky women’s monastery in the Sverdlovsk region, where he was a confessor, but was detained at the end of December last year by law enforcement officers.
On December 29, the Basmanny District Court of Moscow authorized the arrest of Romanov. He was indicted under Part 3 of Art. 110.1 (inducement to suicide), part 3 of Art. 148 (violation of the right to freedom of conscience and religion) and Art. 330 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (arbitrariness).
Update: added verdict information.
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