The council elected the 15th Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', Metropolitan Alexy of Leningrad and Novgorod (Ridiger) and canonized confessors, martyrs and saints, including St. John of Kronstadt.
Upon the death of Patriarch Pimen on May 3, 1990, a meeting of the Holy Synod was held according to the "Charter of the Russian Orthodox Church" which was adopted two years earlier, during the 1988 Local Council.
The synod waited until a May 26 diocesan meeting to elect delegates to the Council according to the following quota: one cleric and layman from dioceses, and one representative from the monasteries, theological academies and seminaries.
The millennial history of the Russian Church, two thousand years of experience of the Ecumenical Orthodox clearly indicate that the deviation from the purity of the faith and tradition of completeness only leads to unrest and schisms , rending the seamless robe of Christ.
Then the presiding Metropolitan Filaret read a report and proposed Cathedral for voting and adoption of the agenda, rules and procedure for the election, which projects just before distributed to delegates, as well as the Bureau, the Secretariat, credentials, editorial and counting commissions.
This nuance was not taken into account, however, the presiding Metropolitan Filaret of Kiev announced that none of the additional nominees did get half the support of members of the Council.
In reply, Patriarch Alexy II thanked all members of the Local Council for the election and congratulations and said: I am aware of the difficulty and exploit the upcoming service.
My life, which is dedicated to serving the youth of the Church of Christ, is coming to the evening, but consecrated Cathedral imposes on me feat primatial ministry.
I accept this election, but in the first minute and ask Eminence archpastors, honest clergy and all God-loving flock country-wide with their prayers, their help to help me and strengthen me in the upcoming service.
I am aware of my weakness and I trust in your holy prayers and help in my upcoming ministry.Until almost midnight approached members of the Local Council to elected Patriarch, bringing their congratulations.
At 12:00 a report on the canonization of Archpriest John of Kronstadt by the chairman of the Synodal Commission for Saints Metropolitan Juvenal Krutitsy and Kolomna.
Unusually acute bore performance Archbishop Herman Berlin (Timofeyev), devoted mostly to relations of Church and State in the historical as well as in legal terms, and the draft law on freedom of conscience, which was published on June 5.
In conclusion, Archbishop Herman spoke about the persecution suffered by the Church in the Soviet era, and raised the question of the canonization of the new Martyrs.
new draft legislation expressed Archbishops Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, Yaroslavl and Rostov Plato and secondary - Berlin and Leipzig German.
Relations with the ROCOR Metropolitans were devoted to presentations Krutitsa Juvenal, Vienna Irenaeus (Zuzemilya), Archbishops Kirill of Smolensk, Saratov Pimen (Khmelevskiy), Yaroslavl Plato, Archpriest Basil Stoyanova priest Vitaly Shastina, Hieromonk Hilarion (Alfeyev) and others.
Archbishop Plato suggested addressing a pastoral word to all Orthodox Russian people in a jurisdiction "Karlovci Church" to "somehow enlighten them."