Warning: "KGB" Increases Infiltration Efforts

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To the clergy, monastics and laity of the Odessa diocese

UKASE
November 25, 2024

In Ukraine, unfortunately, attempts by the Security Service (an agency that performs functions similar to the KGB in Belarus and the FSB in the Russian Federation) to recruit our representatives as secret agents (secret employees — "secret agents") have become more frequent.

Let me remind you that denunciation or cooperation with the KGB (FSB, SBU) of representatives of the Church has always been considered in the ROCOR as betrayal and apostasy from Christ.  Therefore, this Decree requires all those who were persuaded to cooperate in this way (regardless of which service offered such cooperation), and especially those who agreed to it (agreement to cooperate begins with a promise not to tell anyone about the conversation with the recruiter), to repent of this sin — laymen and monastics in confession to their spiritual father (the spiritual father, with the consent of the confessor, is obliged to report such a fact to the Ruling Bishop), and clergy are obliged to repent in confession and personally present the corresponding report to the Ruling Bishop.

Those who fail to follow this instruction and conceal the fact of recruitment fall away from the Church of Christ (even if they continue to participate in prayers and sacraments), according to the words of the Savior: "No one can serve two masters" (Matthew 6:24; Luke 16:13) - laymen and monastics as having sinned against God and the Church, and church and clergy as perjurers who have violated the Oath they took "not to be members of organizations and communities, membership in which presupposes any, even the slightest, spiritual submission or obligation."  May the Judgment of God befall such people!

Ruling Bishop of the Odessa Diocese
His Eminence Metropolitan
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# RE: РПЦЗ: Указ о секретных сотрудниках — Митрополит Агафангел 12.12.2024 13:09
Today, an SBU officer at the border tried to recruit a priest who was coming to us, a cleric of the Moldovan diocese, a citizen of Moldova.  He spent about 40 minutes finding out what his attitude was to our Church, etc.  Can it be that the SBU officers don't understand that by such unprofessional actions they will gather those who will work against them — those previously recruited by the FSB will report to them on all the plans and actions of such unprofessional employees?  In the Orthodox Russian Empire, the "okhrana" was generally forbidden to recruit clergy.  Why shouldn't Ukraine adopt this approach, which is healthy for society?

# RE: РПЦЗ: Указ о секретных сотрудниках — Митрополит Агафангел 25.11.2024 07:57
     This Decree concerns those who inform on the Church and its representatives.
     Secular authorities are trying to recruit church and clergymen in order to try to establish their control over the Church, which is called to serve only Christ.
     In the USSR, they collected information about who is who. Believers were pushed aside as uncontrollable "religious fanatics", and those inclined to compromise and convicted of sins they concealed, and therefore inclined to the Soviet authorities, were promoted.  Now in Ukraine they are trying to repeat this Soviet "feat."  But it is unlikely that they will be able to repeat the unique.