ROC to creat commission to oversee priest-bloggers, source

A session of the ROC Synod. Photo: the ROC's press service

The leadership of the ROC is discussing the creation of an internal body that will monitor the public statements of clergymen, writes blogger Pavel Grammatik citing his sources.

According to him, "The Patriarch ordered the creation of a special 'watching commission' that will be responsible for monitoring the public statements of clergymen, church bloggers, and TikTokers."

Earlier, the UOJ reported that the State Duma called on the Russian Orthodox Church to defrock priest Andrey Tkachev.

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