Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, agreed to an ecclesiastical court's decision to excommunicate Sergii Romanov. This decision comes over a month after the original ruling by the Yekaterinburg court.
A convent founded by Sergii Romanov, an Orthodox priest defrocked for spreading misinformation about Coronavirus, has come under investigation for child abuse. It's taken quite a while for these allegations to come to the public's attention, and a while for the state to bring a case against the convent.
