Toronto, December 2, 2010
"The date for the celebration was not chosen by accident. It was during these days in 1920, aboard the ship Great Prince Alexander Mikhailovich (one of those used by the Russian exiles leaving Crimea), near the shore of Istanbul-Constantinople, then in the city itself, that the first sessions of the Provisional Supreme Church Administration in the South of Russia took place under the presidency of the Most Blessed Metropolitan Anthony (Khrapovitsky), which gave the beginning to the existence of the Russian Church beyond the borders of our Fatherland.
"The first session took place on November 6/19, 1920, then, a day later, on November 7/20."
