Vasile Shoimaru, a deputy from the Action and Solidarity Party (PAS), announced on TVR Moldova that Moldova could ban the Moldovan Metropolitan, which is subordinate to the Russian Patriarchate, following the Ukrainian model. Shoimaru also stated they would solve the “problem of the metropolitanate” this fall.
“If you want, I can be a bit more radical. The time is coming when we, like Ukraine, are going to divest ourselves of the Moldovan Metropolitan, which belongs to Russia. Here is how they are sticking their head or neck in the jungle. Who needs that? How can you go when you know they were coming here with millions of dollars, the others of Shor were coming here, and now they want the church to come? I believe our competent authorities can resolve the issue with the airport landing if they work effectively.
Are those priests from Floresti none of ours? Not one of them with a cap? Normals? To say what’s going on there. Look, we’ve been around, we’ve been through Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and so on. Where did they show up, and where are they going to land? That’s it, but they’re coming in with a joke. And here they are calling them to Moscow, these popes. I believe we will resolve the problem with the metropolis this fall,” concluded Vasile Shoimaru.
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We recall that a group of priests were caught on the morning of Tuesday, August 20, at the Chisinau airport on their way to passport control. These are the people about whom journalists from deschide.md wrote on Monday, August 19, that they would fly to Moscow with a stopover in Istanbul. According to the source, they would meet the fugitive oligarch Ilan Shor and the “Kremlin bosses.”
The priests refused to talk to the press, who asked them questions.
Shortly afterward, the Moldovan Metropolitan Church, canonically subordinate to the Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church, denied that it had organized pilgrimages for some Moldovan priests to Moscow. The Metropolitan promises to clarify the situation and “vehemently condemns the involvement of clerics in politics or propaganda activities.”