A document of the Oradea Episcopate has provided the public with clues that, following thorough research, have helped us reconstruct the path and evolution of an important Russian influence agent, with connections to Moscow, who operates intensively in Cyprus and Romania to strengthen Kremlin’s influence in the Orthodox churches of both countries.
In the fall of 2009, a 24-year-old young man becomes a priest in the Romanian Orthodox Church. He has a gentle voice and rough black hair, which he wore short and uncombed at that time. A fresh and delicate beard timidly covers his cheeks, leaving islands on his smooth, white skin, and his brown, glassy, penetrating eyes are a window to a character defined by ambition.
Instead of the young servant of the Lord with a magnetic voice that captivates the attention of the parishioners, settling near a place of worship in the country and beginning his apprenticeship in the complicated relationship with the faithful, three months later, in February 2010, the priest was "transferred" to the Orthodox Church in Cyprus, where he served for two years at the "Saint Nicholas" church in Lakatameia, part of the Metropolis of Tamasos and Oreini, led by Father Isaiah.
That was the moment when the destiny of the young priest Ciprian Romeo Mega, born in Oradea, fundamentally changed, becoming one of the most prolific influence agents of Russia, infiltrated in the Romanian Orthodox Church, according to an institution's document.
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Ciprian Mega, priest Oradea
In mid-January, the Episcopal Council of the Orthodox Episcopate of Oradea decided to initiate a disciplinary investigation against the priest and to prohibit him from serving for a period of 15 days.
Ciprian Mega is a declared admirer of Vladimir Putin, having met him at the Kremlin, when he participated with a film - 21 Rubies - at the Moscow festival in April 2024, but he is also a declared supporter of Calin Georgescu, a candidate for the presidency of Romania.
"...we consider that we have all the coordinates and indicators to be justified in observing that one of the Trojan horses in our Church is this priest Ciprian-Romeo Mega," as stated in the document released by PS Sofronie, the bishop of Oradea, accusing Mega of being recruited by the Russian secret services.
The priest "was not accepted anywhere on the territory of the Romanian Orthodox Church due to his rebellious, anarchic, and extremist views, materialized from a young age through the defamatory and hallucinatory work The Belly of the Harlot, in which he speculates fragments of information from the troubled and disastrous communist period as reality. This is why he was ordained only to serve in Cyprus, another stronghold of Russian oligarchs and mafia, who act and think in perfect harmony with the priest in question, reason for which he was promoted, recruited, and then implanted, with numerous insistent efforts, in the Romanian Orthodox Church to sow disturbances and intrigues, to destabilize and work in a different direction, with a political outcome, as we see in our days," as stated in the report of the Oradea Episcopate.