A metropolitan associated with Putin will take up a post in the Crimean Metropolis
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Metropolitan Tikhon (Shevkunov) of Pskov and Porkhov was appointed head of the Russian Orthodox Church in the annexed Crimea. The priest has been released from the post of head of the Pskov Metropolitanate, according to a message on the official website of the Moscow Patriarchate.
Instead of Tikhon, the Pskov Metropolis will be headed by Bishop Yuryevsky Arseniy, vicar of the Novgorod Diocese. He will become the hegumen of the Pskov-Pechersk Monastery.
Metropolitan Tikhon was called the hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, close to Vladimir Putin and even the confessor of the Russian president. In March, Shevkunov caught the footage of Putin’s first visit to Crimea after the start of the war with Ukraine.
As the chairman of the Patriarchal Council for Culture, the metropolitan advocated the transfer of Andrei Rublev’s “Trinity” icon from the Tretyakov Gallery to the possession of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Investigative journalists from Sirena also claimed that Tikhon received large state grants – a total of more than 76 million rubles. We are talking about festivals in the Pskov region, as well as exhibitions in historical parks “Russia — my history”. Last year, the publication “Vazhney istorii” also reported that the metropolitan’s projects received billions from the state budget.
Tikhon is also known for blocking the work on the law on combating domestic violence, which was supposed to be submitted to the State Duma at the end of 2019. This was reported last fall by the “Verstka” publication.
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