Kuremäe Convent rules out steps to leave Moscow Patriarchate

The Kuremäe Convent, which operates directly under the authority of the patriarch of Moscow and all Russia (known as a stavropegial convent), responded to a request from the Ministry of the Interior to leave the jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate and abandon its stavropegial status. In its response, the convent stated that it could not comply with this request for legal and religious reasons.