The priest was arrested at the initiative of the state border service. Archimandrite Gideon tried using to court to stop the procedure of granting autocephaly for the Ukrainian Church, but activists call it a Pro-Russian propagandist.
Bishop of the Moscow Patriarchate, vicar of the tithe monastery in the Ukrainian capital Yury Haron (Archimandrite Gideon) was detained in Boryspil airport on the evening of 13 February, reports “Диалог.UA”.
The controversial priest was not allowed to set foot on Ukrainian soil after he got off the plane, which flew from Frankfurt to 18.00 on Kiev.
This news in social networks, said Oleg Slobodyan, a press – Secretary of the State border service of Ukraine. According to him, the border guards had the order to withdraw from Charon Ukrainian passport, because the priest is a citizen of the several States. Slobodyan also said that with the Archimandrite at the moment, “work law enforcement”.
As for the priest, on his page in facebook also published on this occasion. It is clarified that to the aid of Gideon rushed a few MPs whose details were not disclosed and lawyers, but they are “not allowed”. Later Charon “was bad”. In the incident, the Bishop and his supporters blame the “Ukrainian security services”. According to them, the priest soon may be deported.
We will remind, in Volhynia, a priest who has not agreed to transfer the parish in ptsu, went on the offense.