June 10, 2024 Diocesan The Council of the Kain diocese (Kuibyshev, Novosibirsk region) removed Archpriest Vadim Perminov fr om the staff with a ban on the priesthood for 1 year or until repentance.

There were more than enough reasons for such a decision. He was charged with: unjustified evasion fr om performing Statutory services during Holy and Bright Weeks, regular non-performance of evening services on the eve of Sundays. He evaded the obedience of the rector of the temple, which was expressed in the actual refusal to accept cases for the temple and submit an appropriate application to the judicial authorities for his registration as the head of the parish. 

In addition, Perminov plunged his hand too deeply into the parish treasury, writing out an unreasonably high salary for himself (there are certain rules for calculating monetary maintenance for clergymen and members of the clergy).

Father Vadim was also not impeccable in the doctrinal plan, questioning the effectiveness of church sacraments, rituals and Church tradition. Here are a few of his public statements: 

"Christianity is a living life with a living God. And not some kind of occult and magical actions. Even if you drink holy water, nothing will happen if you don't change your heart, your thoughts, your whole life."

"People light the Holy Fire, but God sanctifies it, as people fill the baptismal water into a vessel, and the Holy Spirit sanctifies it. On Holy Saturday, there is no miracle of the Descent of fire on the Holy sepulchre, but there is a miracle of its consecration."

"The priest, speaking of those who receive communion unworthily, cites the text of the epistle of the ap. Paul does not explain it, leaving it to the viewer. It is unlikely that Paul is talking about mandatory confession, about the rule from the prayer book and the obligatory presence at evening service ...".

And here are his historical interpretations: "It should be clarified that we are talking in general about the Second World War, of which the Great Patriotic War was a part. The WWII began on September 1, 1939 with the German attack on Poland. Soon Soviet troops entered there, and the country was divided between the USSR and Nazi Germany under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Act." This is how this "shepherd" instructs his parishioners on the Day of Remembrance and Sorrow on June 22.

Such "ecclesiastical" postmodernism and free behavior  Perminova turned out to be possible because the diocese remained widowed for a long time, without a ruling bishop. When Bishop Vladimir (Biryukov) took over the department in February 2024, he tried to find out from Fr. Vadim explains the reasons for such a strange behavior that does not correspond to his rank. Seeing the priest's tenacity, Vladyka, for his admonition, gave him obedience — during the remaining days of Great Lent, to serve Sunday liturgy in a rural church wh ere there was no priest. However, after this blessing, fr. Vadim finally "went off the rails."

The conversation was face-to-face, but Perminov found it possible to publicly disclose its contents, and significantly distorting it. In particular, he announced that the bishop had summoned him because of a denunciation that he did not read the prescribed prayer for "Holy Russia" during the service. In reality, the bishop simply did not have time to learn about this "fronde" of the liberal archpriest at that moment.

But this did not seem enough to Perminov, and he wrote an "open letter" to the ruling bishop of the Novosibirsk Metropolitan Nicodemus (Chibisov), in which he informed him that he had not read the prayer for "Holy Russia", did not read it and was not going to read it, because he considered it unacceptable for himself to "pray for victory in the fratricidal war between Orthodox Christians".

The news of this step was immediately picked up by Ukrainian resources, as well as emigrant Russophobic channels, which suggests that the text of the message was sent to them by Perminov himself. 

After that, fr. Vadim began actively giving interviews to anti-Russian publications wh ere he not only slanders the Church, but also makes statements that fall under the definition of "discrediting the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation" (Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). 

In one of the Tg channels, he publishes similar statements, as well as speeches by the stripped-down schismatic Alexei Uminsky, former priest and Russophobe Vasily Maksimishinets.

Until the end of 2023, the channel had a completely different focus. Then Perminov published articles by the theologian Alexei Osipov, sermons by fr. Andrey Tkachev, spiritual songs of Hieromonk Roman, conversations of the apologist fr. Oleg Stenyaev.  By the way, by his own admission, Perminov read prayers twice a week, at the request of parishioners, for the health of Russian soldiers.

What is the reason for his "U-turn"? The actions of the ruling bishop, who called Fr. Vadim has nothing to do with financial and service discipline. Pirminov was "thinking", or rather, doubting or uncertain in his faith before. But the final reason for his downfall was the experience of the same Uminsky, who, after being deprived of the priesthood, went abroad, and received a good "lift" from a foreign agent Mikhail Khodorkovsky, went over to the schismatics and now "serves" abroad in one of their temples.

With his submission, Perminov contacted the organization "Peace until all" ("Peace to all"), created after the start of the Special Operation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in Ukraine to recruit Russian clergy (finances priests calling on the flock to confront Russia and speak in support of Bandera), and he was promised financial support and a place in the schismatic nomination in "Europe". 

He explains his "rebirth" in this way: "Was I immersed in political events before 2022? Sure. I was a fan of Solovyov, Kiselyov, and the Skabeyevs. I didn't miss a single show. By the way, the word is very appropriate — the show. But after watching the film the investigation of Alexei Navalny [listed as a terrorist and extremist], he turned off the TV forever."

In order to travel abroad and receive all the promised "Peace until all" bonuses, Perminov must "suffer" from the hierarchy or the authorities, for example, be brought to administrative responsibility for spreading fakes about the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. So he's trying. Perminov himself states: "Let's start with the fact that I have not been defrocked (yet), perhaps when a critical mass of my interviews accumulates, this will happen." 

However, it cannot be ruled out that instead of "administrative detention" he will receive a criminal case under Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and will end up not abroad, but in places of imprisonment. 

"How should we interpret the categorical refusal of individual clergymen to pray for Holy Russia? To regard it as betrayal, regardless of the reason for which it was committed: out of unreason, confusion, ignorance, greed, vanity, pride, or maybe a person was simply confused, tricked. Russian Russian Orthodox Church," Archpriest Alexander Novopashin wrote about Perminov's betrayal. In any case, these people are real "Vlasov men in cassocks", betraying the Russian army, the entire Russian people, their Fatherland, betraying the faith of their fathers and mothers, betraying their flock, betraying the Russian Orthodox Church.