"You are being defrocked." Priest Sergei Manko was defrocked. He beat his wife and sent her to a mental hospital three times.
Metropolitan Nikander of Vladimir and Suzdal defrocked a priest Sergei MankoThe text of the decree is on the website of the Vladimir Diocese saysthat Manko violated the church obligations he had given and acted contrary to the hierarchical order established in the Russian Orthodox Church.
«You are being defrocked for violating the 25th rule of the Holy Apostles (regarding perjury) and the 16th rule of the First Ecumenical Council,” to be specified in the decree.
Manko "became famous" in 2022, when his behavior towards his wife became known. Elena Manko: he beat her, for which he was brought to administrative responsibility.
After another beating, the wife promised to go to the police, Manko warned: "Before that, people in white cloaks will come and take you away."He kept his promise: Elena was forcibly hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital three times. Later, she was able to sue 300 thousand rubles The Ministry of Finance was charged with illegal hospitalization. Last March, Sergei Manko was forced to perform 280 hours of community service for publishing information about his wife's mental illness on social media.
The story is not unique. Years earlier became known The history of the Ryazan Pokrovsky family: the priest of the Kazan Convent Vladimir Pokrovsky regularly beat his wife Lyubov, the mother of his four children, who had health problems. In Nizhnekamsk, a priest Mikhail Zubarev killed and dismembered his 44-year-old wife Victoria Zubareva. Ex-wife Bishop Ignatius of Yenisei and Lesosibirsk (in the world Fedor Golinchenko) Ksenia asked defrock him. The reason is the same beatings and violence.
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