The ROC proposed that the Traffic Police allocate special license plates for clergymen. “The idea is that the inspector immediately sees: a priest is driving, cannot stop”, they say in the patriarchate. According to the head of the Synod department for standardization and metrology, Rashid Daliev, the issue has “long been overdue” and should be discussed at the upcoming meeting of the interdepartmental commission in November.
“We have not yet come up with a ready proposal, because it is better for the Traffic Police to work on it themselves. It could be a separate series of numbers or a separate background – golden, for example, like domes, or violet with white lettering”, he suggested.
What else to add? We have nothing. Although no – the main representatives of the church(es) already have “their” numbers, but only the top ones, so to speak. And since we are talking about it, we recommend looking at two priests in Kyiv in a luxury Mercedes and priests in Kyiv in a Range Rover. And it would be a sin not to remember about a priest of the Moscow Patriarchate on the sidewalk.