Kirill Calls for Defense of Moscow, Ancient Eastern Churches Prepare Advice for Him

AsiaNews ^ | 4/27/22 | Vladimir Rozanskij

[marshmallow]

Russian patriarch criticised for his support of Putin's invasion of Ukraine. It would take a council of all the Churches or a decision of the Moscow synod to dismiss him. Kirill increasingly under scrutiny in the Orthodox and Christian world of the West.

Moscow (AsiaNews) - The patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Kirill (Gundjaev) celebrated a service after Easter in the historic Cathedral of the Assumption within the walls of the Kremlin, inviting the population to gather around the "city of Moscow, center of all Russia" to defend itself from the "centers of power abroad." The Russian people need to rediscover their inner unity, the patriarch said, "because only in unity is our strength, and if we preserve in our hearts the faith of our fathers, then Russia will be invincible."

As Kirill explained, "victory is not always that of arms, but also the victory of the spirit, and many today would like this spirit to disappear." He listed the tactics of the enemy, who "spreads confusion, creates new idols, draws attention to new pseudo-values, in order to overthrow the dimensions of man's consciousness, from the vertical one that unites with God to the horizontal one, on which all the demands of human flesh are implanted."

Rumors are circulating of a possible meeting of the Council of Apostolic Patriarchs of the Ancient Oriental Churches, the four members of the ancient Pentarchy, from which Rome is excluded: Constantinople, Alexandria, Jerusalem and Antioch. The meeting had been planned for months, to evaluate Kirill's choice to establish a Russian exarchate in Africa, on the canonical territory of Alexandria, and now the question raised by more than 400 priests of the Orthodox Church in Ukraine, the judgment on Kirill's support for Putin's policy, arises.

The question was formally posed by protoierej Andrej Pinčuk of.......

[Mount Athos]

Spectacularly dishonest journalism. Absolute slander.

Read the whole sermon in context and it says nothing like what they claim. Nothing.

[ETCM]

It would take a council of all the Churches or a decision of the Moscow synod to dismiss him.

The council and the synod know better. Kirill represents Putin, and only Putin could dismiss Kirill.

[MercyFlush]

“It would take a council of all the Churches or a decision of the Moscow synod to dismiss him.”

Or one guy from #2 Bolshaya Street to pop a .17 caliber bullet into his noggin and then call it an unfortunate ‘heart attack’.

[tlozo]

On 3 April, Patriarch Kirill gave a sermon at the Cathedral of the Russian Armed Forces in which he said that: ‘We have broken the back of fascism once; we will do it again’.