This was announced in an interview with RIA Novosti by Metropolitan Leonid of Klin (Gorbachev), Patriarchal Exarch of Africa.

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And, according to our forecasts, this is just the beginning ... 102 clergymen have already asked to be accepted under the omophorion of the Russian Orthodox Church, ”said Metropolitan Leonid.

Earlier it was reported that the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church decided to form the Patriarchal Exarchate of Africa as part of two dioceses.