Russian priest banished to rural village after wife wins beauty pageant

Some comments made online were also 'offensive and threatening'.

Father Feodor Saprykin, chairman of the church court, told Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper: 'It is a great sin when the wife of a priest exposes herself like this.

'Father Sergiy Zotov will not go back to his previous place of service until his wife repents.

'What kind of priest is he, if he can't manage his own family? How can he run the local church community?'