Monk arrested after ‘stabbing preacher with box cutter in a monastery’

Emily Bashforth | Live News reporter Published August 8, 2026 5:29pm Updated August 8, 2026 5:29pm A monk has been remanded in custody over an alleged stabbing (Picture: Shutterstock/Jose Hernandez) A Romanian monk has been arrested after allegedly attacking two men with a box cutter inside a monastery in Cyprus. The 51-year-old is accused of grabbing the blade and stabbing a fellow preacher and a worker, and he’s now under investigation for attempted murder. It’s reported that, on Friday, the monk was visited by a delegation of priests and asked to leave the cell at Agios Neophytos Monastery in Paphos, where he had been living and which his late father previously occupied. Police believe that he became ‘enraged’, refusing to give up his keys and vacate the premises. He then allegedly grab