{"id":1397331,"date":"2026-05-25T16:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T13:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/scandalous-metropolitan-of-the-russian-orthodox-church-hilarion-detained-in-the-czech-republic\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T16:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T13:18:12","slug":"scandalous-metropolitan-of-the-russian-orthodox-church-hilarion-detained-in-the-czech-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/scandalous-metropolitan-of-the-russian-orthodox-church-hilarion-detained-in-the-czech-republic\/","title":{"rendered":"Scandalous Metropolitan of the Russian Orthodox Church Hilarion detained in the Czech Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"951\" data-end=\"1106\"><strong>Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev) of the Russian Orthodox Church was detained in the Czech Republic. During a search of his car, police found containers with a white substance.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1108\" data-end=\"1153\"> This <a href=\"https:\/\/ruski.radio.cz\/mitropolita-rpc-ilariona-zaderzhali-v-chehii-po-podozreniyu-v-hranenii-8887590\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">is reported by<\/a> Radio Prague International.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1155\" data-end=\"1293\"> The incident occurred on May 24 in Karlovy Vary. According to the publication, the metropolitan was accompanied by a cameraman in the car.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1295\" data-end=\"1403\"> During a search of the car, law enforcement officers found four small containers with a white substance in the trunk.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1405\" data-end=\"1490\"> Hilarion himself stated that he had nothing to do with the illegal storage of prohibited substances.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1492\" data-end=\"1642\"> In recent years, the metropolitan has repeatedly been involved in scandals. Previously, he headed the Budapest-Hungarian Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church and received Hungarian citizenship.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1644\" data-end=\"1797\"> After accusations of sexual harassment by his cellmate, Georgy Suzuki, Hilarion was transferred to serve at the Church of Saints Peter and Paul in Karlovy Vary.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1799\" data-end=\"1935\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"> Czech media also reported that the metropolitan could be added to the sanctions list due to suspicions of ties to Russian special services. <\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\"><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2758\" data-end=\"2923\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev) of the Russian Orthodox Church was detained in the Czech Republic. During a search of his car, police found containers with a white substance. This is reported by Radio Prague International. The incident occurred on May 24 in Karlovy Vary. According to the publication, the metropolitan was accompanied by a cameraman in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1397320,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76873],"class_list":["post-1397331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1397331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1397320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1397331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1397331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}