Religious Court Rules To Strip Rogue Russian Priest Of His Rank

(RFE/RL) -- An ultraconservative, coronavirus-denying Russian priest who took control of a convent in the Urals with help from Cossack guards last month has been* stripped off his religious rank*.

The Diocesan Court in the Sverdlovsk region on July 3 ruled that Schema-Hegumen Sergiy (Nikolai Romanov), had shown disobedience...