Begone! ROC sends Metropolitan Hilarion — who was detained last month in Czechia on suspicion of drug smuggling and released without charges — to rural Brazil. The assignment is the latest demotion for a once-senior church official after a sexual harassment scandal in 2024. meduza.io/en/news/2026...
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…
