Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill (Vladimir Gundyaev) demanded a law on a deferral of mobilization for members of the clergy, TASS reports .
The patriarch said that he had already instructed the legal administration of the Moscow Patriarchate to deal with the issue.
Gundyaev claims that during the "partial" mobilization, the ROC came to an interim agreement with the Ministry of Defense about delays. According to him, the clergy were given a deferment "for the entire duration of their stay in holy orders." The patriarch noted that the decision should be enshrined in law.
It is known that since the beginning of the war, at least three clergymen of the Russian Orthodox Church, who provided “spiritual” support to military personnel, have died . Earlier, a video of “work” at the front of one of the priests, Priest Pavel Dmitrievich Kunitsyn, was published on the network, in which he fires an RPG, stating before that: “The Moscow Theological Academy and Seminary is fighting NATO. Christ is Risen".
Gundyaev himself justifies the war against Ukraine, and also calls on the clergy and believing Russians to pray for the "health" of Vladimir Putin. Pope Francis told how, during a telephone conversation, Gundyaev gave arguments in support of the war. Later, the Russian Orthodox Church published a speech by Gundyaev, in which for some reason he talked about how long it would take the missiles to reach Moscow, and complained about the potential expansion of NATO. In April, almost 200 priests of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) of the Moscow Patriarchate ( the UOC had already separated from it ) demanded that Patriarch Kirill be brought before a church tribunal.