From early childhood, my grandmother, Maria Nikolayevna, took me to the Church, which was located on Kuznetskaya Street, it was called the "black prayer room", because monks once served in it.

[3] In his youth, he was a member of the CPSU, however, as Archpriest Yevgeny Chunin notes, "he left the party long before 1991 — when he consciously joined the Church of Christ.

[3] By his own admission: "after a long break, I came to our Old Believer church at 15 Sovkhoznaya Street, met the rector, Father Leonty Pimenov, who <...> discovered the depth of faith for me, which helped me to take a firm path to salvation of the soul, to learn a lot myself".

[7] At the beginning of 1997, he left his secular job, resigning from the position of head of the Technical Control Department of the plant, and completely focused on church activities.

"Metropolitan Andrian's efforts aimed at overcoming the isolation of the Old Believers from the modern spiritual and cultural life of Russia, I will try to continue as much as I can.

[19] Nevertheless, Metropolitan Andrian's active efforts to open the Old Believers to the general public inspired many people, but also gave rise to misunderstandings among isolationist representatives of the Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church.

Some clergy and laity, led by Archpriest Elisey Eliseyev, demanded at the Council to discuss the behavior of Metropolitan Cornelius during his contacts with the "New Believers" of the Moscow Patriarchate.

According to the former press secretary of the Moscow Metropolia, Sergei Vurgaft, "these frequent meetings cause concern that their ultimate goal will be the merger of the ROOC with the ROC".

On behalf of the Episcopal Court, impose enhanced penance on them"; "excommunicate monk Alimpius (Verbitsky), Dmitry Baranovsky and Dimitry Kozlov from church communion for the period of consideration at the next Council of the Metropolis of their written repentance published in the media".

[29][30] The secretary of the Moscow Patriarchate Commission on Old Believers' parishes and interaction with the Old Believers, Priest John Mirolyubov, said in connection with the conflict at the Council that he considers it to be caused by the activities of "neophytes" — "zealots of purity of faith", who shared "not any creative tasks, but blind hatred of the Russian Orthodox Church, from where they came, for the most part, and came out".

As a result, two groups of "zealots" took shape: the followers of Elisey Eliseyev, who began to call themselves "temporarily interrupted communication with the Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church", considering it canonical; and those who believed that the Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church, and at the same time the Metropolitanate of Belya Krinitsa, deviated into heresy.

[20] On October 15, 2008, under the chairmanship of Metropolitan Cornelius of Moscow and All Rus, the Local Council opened in the Pokrovsky Cathedral of the Rogozhskoye Cemetery; about 170 delegates were registered.

[34] On the first day of the council's work, Metropolitan Cornelius made a report on the current state of affairs in the Russian Orthodox Church, relations with "non-Orthodox" and other Old Believer movements.

[35] In response to an appeal addressed to him by a group of Christians from the Far East who wanted to "receive an answer about [his] hope," he, in particular, said: "<...> I answer that, trusting in the mercy of the Lord in the forgiveness of my sins and the intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos, I hope and believe that I can only be saved in the True Church of Christ, which is the Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church.

[38] During this period, Metropolitan Cornelius actively visits communities in the regions and often meets with representatives of local municipal authorities and the press.

Representatives of the Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church began to take part in various cultural, historical, spiritual and educational events.

Conferences, round tables, exhibitions, and educational lectures are held on an ongoing basis in the Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church.

Local authorities in Russia, to a greater extent than before, assist Old Believer communities in the restoration of churches, the allocation of land for the new construction of religious buildings.

[45] During the meeting, the upcoming celebration of the 400th anniversary of the birth of Protopop Avvakum and the reconstruction of architectural monuments in the main celebration centers - at the Rogozhsky and Preobrazhensky cemeteries in Moscow, interaction with compatriots abroad and the return of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Intercession and Assumption of the Mother of God in Maly Gavrikov Lane in Moscow were discussed.

[48] On June 1, 2017, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin visited the spiritual center of the Russian Orthodox Church to congratulate Metropolitan Cornelius on Name Day.