Russian prelate sent to Brazil as police confirm cocaine in car
Metropolitan Hilarion was once considered a front runner to become Russian Orthodox patriarch.
Patriarch Kirill of Moscow issued a decree transferring Metropolitan Hilarion from the Czech Republic to Brazil Wednesday, the same day Czech media reported that a white substance found in Hilarion’s car was confirmed to be cocaine.
Patriarch Kirill decreed June 3 that Hilarion would…