On August 25, 2022, Archpriest Andrei Kordochkin from St. Petersburg, who served for many years in the Spanish-Portuguese diocese, was removed from the post of secretary of the diocese, but as a priest he continues to serve in the same place.
The priest was among the signatories of the open appeal of the clergy of the Russian Orthodox Church against the war. In the spring, he gave a long interview to Deutsche Welle, in which he revealed in detail his attitude to the war.
