ENGLISH VERSION: Unification of ROCOR with Moscow Patriarchate Transferred to Early 2005

ROCOR (L) will solve the key issues of its "reunification" with MP during the All-Diaspora Sobor in first half of 2006, the reason given being that a decision on such an important question requires the convocation of a special All-Diaspora Sobor, said Metropolitan Lavr, the First Hierarch of ROCOR (L) and Bishop of Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville.

It was decided that the event would take place in the Joy of All Who Sorrow Cathedral in San Francisco, where the incorrupt relics of St John (Maximovitch) - some of the most sacred possessions of the Russian dispersion-- are laid. (...)