The Christian Church does not welcome the idea of polygamy

The Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church does not welcome the idea of polygamy, voiced by the head of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Russia, Ravil Gainutdin. As Vakhtang Kipshidze, Deputy Chairman of the Department for Church Relations with Society and the Media of the Moscow Patriarchate, noted, answering a question from RBC, Christianity is based on monogamy - the relationship of one man and one woman.

“For us, monogamy is associated with respect for both the role of a man and the role of a woman and the recognition of their equal dignity in marriage, those special gifts that the Creator has bestowed on each of the spouses,” said Vakhtang Kipshidze. At the same time, he added, Orthodoxy is in solidarity with Islam and Judaism in the fact that relations outside of marriage are unacceptable.

The issue of polygamy was again actively discussed after the head of the Russian Muslim Spiritual Directorate Ravil Gainutdin said in his TV interview that legal relations with two or more women are better than adultery. In his opinion, it would be advisable in regions where Muslims predominate, to allow men to have two or more wives. Earlier, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, as well as some deputies and religious leaders of Tatarstan, Bashkortostan and a number of republics of the North Caucasus, spoke about such a possibility in a positive sense.