TRC officials detain Metropolitan Varsonofiy’s secretary in Vinnytsia
Archimandrite Filaret. Photo: press service of the Vinnytsia Eparchy
On the evening of April 7 in Vinnytsia, officers of the police and the Territorial Center of Recruitment and Social Support detained Archimandrite Filaret (Olivinsky), a cleric of the Vinnytsia Eparchy. This was reported by the press service of the Vinnytsia Eparchy.
Despite the fact that the priest’s military documents and his information in the Reserve+ system were fully in order, he was taken to the recruitment center. Representatives of the center explained their actions by saying that paperwork needed to be processed for a temporary deferment.
In the end, however, Archimandrite Filaret was kept confined on the premises of the recruitment center, where he remains to this day. The priest serves as the personal secretary of Metropolitan Varsonofiy of Vinnytsia and Bar and heads the diocesan chancery.
The eparchy called on the faithful to pray for Fr. Filaret and to spread information about his detention in order to prevent the cleric’s mobilization.
Earlier, the UOJ reported that recruitment-center personnel had abducted a monk from the UOC’s Myltsi Monastery.
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