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Now the former representative of the Russian Orthodox Church has been excommunicated for some time.
On Friday April 28, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus’ issued a decree depriving Andrei Kuraev, former protodeacon of the Russian Orthodox Church, of the priesthood. Until recently, he was forbidden to serve in the temple.
Sanctions against Kuraev emerged after talking about the rector of the Epiphany Cathedral in Moscow, Archpriest Alexander Ageikin, who died of coronavirus. Then the Deacon called him “a careerist who became an instrument of Patriarch Kirill’s petty reforms.”
Just the day before, Kuraev had commented on the desire of the Russian Orthodox Church to ban the creation of artificial intelligence in the form of a person. According to the protodeacon, the position was unreasonable and seemed strange.
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