(CNN) A Russian Orthodox priest has been removed from his post and sent to work in a remote village after his wife took part in a beauty contest, the state news agency RIA Novosti reported. The secretary of the Magnitogorsk episcopate told RIA Novosti that the priest's wife, Oksana Zotova, performed a Brazilian dance in carnival costume at a beauty pageant held during the Great Lent fasting season. Oksana Zotova took part in a beauty pageant during a period of religious fasting. The priest, Sergiy Zotov, will be temporarily sent from his post in the southwestern city of Magnitogorsk to serve in Fershampenuaz village because the wife of a priest should not behave in this way, the secretary, Father Lev Baklitsky, told RIA Novosti. "And we know Father Sergiy to be a good, good priest," Baklitsky told the news agency.

Source: CNN April 17, 2019 14:48 UTC