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According to Bishop Basil, in the following week, Fr Andrey sent letters comdemning the policies of Bishop Basil and his supporters to the chairman of the Department for External Church Relations ( DECR ) Metropolitan Kyril of Smolensk, Patriarch Alexei of Moscow, Archbishop Innokenty and to the Russian Ambassador in London.

( According to the understanding of the canons which Bishop Basil would himself later follow, Father Andrey's approach to senior clergy of the Russian Orthodox Church was in accordance with canons 9 and 17 of the Fourth Ecumenical Council ; moreover, since the content of the letter to the Ambassador is not publicly available, it cannot be said whether or how this letter pertained to ecclesiastical matters as opposed to matters of concern to the Russian state of whom Fr Andrey is a citizen.