Russian Prelate Sent to Brazil as Police Confirm Cocaine in Car
The Russian Orthodox Church moved Hilarion after Czech police detained him on drug-smuggling suspicion and later released him without charges.
- Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, has assigned Metropolitan Hilarion to the Argentine and South American Diocese, moving the former high-ranking official to Brazil following recent international controversy.
- On May 24, Czech police detained Hilarion after finding a substance in his car; authorities released him two days later without charges.
- Hilarion, formerly Grigory Alfeyev, led the Moscow Patriarchate's Department for External Church Relations before facing sexual harassment allegations from former aide Georgy Suzuki, prompting his prior reassignment to Hungary.
- In Brazil, the clergyman will serve at the Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Santa Rosa and the Church of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian in Campinas.
- His trajectory from the Holy Synod, the Russian Orthodox Church's supreme governing body, to remote parishes marks a significant career decline following the harassment allegations and detention.
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Russian prelate sent to Brazil as police confirm cocaine in car
Patriarch Kirill of Moscow issued a decree transferring Metropolitan Hilarion from the Czech Republic to Brazil Wednesday, the same day Czech media reported that a white substance found in Hilarion’s car was confirmed to be cocaine.Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev). Credit: Kremlin.ru/wikimedia CC BY 4.0.Patriarch Kirill decreed June 3 that Hilarion would serve in the Russian Orthodox Eparchy of Argentina and South America, while residing in south…
The Czech police confirmed for the newspaper "Deník N" that the Russian Metropolitan Ilarion, who was active in Czechia, was carrying cocaine in his car. He was detained last week, but the lawmen released him after two days. Currently, the clergy are in Moscow, writing the Czech publication. From there, he complains that the media presents him as a Russian agent. The Church is now sending him to another parish.
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Європейська правдаCzech police have confirmed that the white powder found in the car of Metropolitan Hilarion of the Russian Orthodox Church was cocaine.
Russian Orthodox Church reassigns ex-foreign relations chief, recently held in Czech drug probe, to Brazil’s backcountry parishes
Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, has assigned Metropolitan Hilarion — recently suspected of drug smuggling in the Czech Republic — to the Argentine and South American Diocese.
According to a statement from the Russian Orthodox Church, Hilarion is no longer able to continue his ministry in the Czech Republic, so two Brazilian churches have been assigned to him.
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