The Canons Require Patriarch Kirill to Be Tried by a Council
Deacon Andrei Kuraev noted that after Patriarch Kirill (Gundyaev) publicly preached a heresy condemned by the Council of Chalcedon, he should be brought before a church court.
"The Canons require that the patriarch, who publicly uttered heresy, be brought before a council, and that all ecclesiastical communion with him be severed until a council decision is made," he emphasized.
The deacon also noted that the heretical words of the head of the Russian Orthodox Church were ignored by Bishop Kirill (Zinkovsky), Rector of the Moscow Theological Academy, and Bishop Nikolai (Pogrebnyak), Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Moscow Patriarchate, who were present at the service. Furthermore, "all professional denouncers of the 'heresy of ecumenism' also pretend they heard nothing," Kuraev wrote.
Patriarch Kirill of Moscow uttered a heresy condemned by the Ecumenical Council
In his sermon on May 21, Patriarch Kirill (Gundyaev) of Moscow declared that at the Second Coming, Jesus Christ will appear "outside of all flesh."
"The Church of God is that through which the Lord is present in people's lives from the very times when He came in the flesh to minister to the salvation of the human race, until the time when He will appear outside of all flesh, in glory," the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church said.
Deacon Andrei Kuraev drew attention to this, recalling that the Council of Chalcedon of 451 decreed that the union of the Divine and human natures in Christ is "inseparable." Thus, he emphasized, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church "uttered a heresy condemned by the Ecumenical Council."