The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church set up a commission to investigate the affairs of the Diocese of Budapest and Hungary, and suspended it pending the proceedings Hilarion (Alfeev) the metropolitan government of Budapest and Hungary, reports MTI.
According to the minutes of the synod published on the website of the Russian Orthodox Church on Thursday, Metropolitan Hilarion was also suspended from his duties as chairman of the synod’s biblical and theological committee, as well as the chairmanship of the inter-synod attendance committee dealing with theological and theological education.
A Patriarch Kirill Until his appointment in Budapest in June 2022, Hilarion, who was called his right-hand man, was the Metropolitan of Volokalamsk and the chairman of the department of external church relations at the Russian Orthodox Church. In July of this year, it turned out that the Zsolt Semjen Hilarion, also awarded by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, lives on an 820 million HUF property near Budapest, and that he received Hungarian citizenship shortly after arriving in Hungary. Hilarion’s former assistant, George Suzuki he also accused the metropolitan of sexual harassment.
HVG later wrote that the developments also reached Patriarch Kirill, who, according to the descriptions, went into a rage when he heard what was said. According to the newspaper, Kirill’s anger is explained by the fact that he had to face not only the scandal that erupted from the Suzuki case, but also the fact that he himself is named in the audio recordings.
Acting President of both mentioned committees of the Synod Mefogyij (Zinkovszkij) appointed the bishop of Yegorjevsk, and with the temporary administration of the diocese of Budapest and Hungary, the patriarchal exarch of Western Europe, Nyestor (Sirotenko) appointed metropolitans of Korsuni (Khersonesian) and Western Europe temporarily.
2024-07-25 19:48:17