“His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has approved the decision of the Diocesan Court of the Yekaterinburg Diocese,” the message says.
As noted, on July 3, the schema-abbot was found guilty of violating the priestly oath, monastic vows, a number of Apostolic rules and the rules of the Ecumenical Councils.
The confessor and founder of the Sredneuralsky nunnery became the focus of attention after he began to speak in sermons about the coronavirus as a "pseudo-pandemic."
The diocese deprived him of the right to preach, but he did not obey and continued to urge his flock to take to the streets and protest. The ecclesiastical court defrocked him.
Later, Sergiy was fined 90 thousand rubles for disseminating false information and 18 thousand - in the framework of the case for inciting hatred.