i am personally connected, because ryazan was my spiritual father, the ever-memorable vladyka metropolitan nikodimone might say, such a key personality in importance, the most difficult post-war... but at the same time he turned the impossible into the possible, since he became a very person known throughout the christian world, through heading the department of external church relations, that is, the department that developed the external relations of our church, then relying on a very large number of his friends, like-minded people all over the world, he provided at least a small, but still... . foreign delegations to churches, especially if these churches were intended to be closed, i well remember the solemn services on easter in the then city of leningrad, in which a number of churches were also intended to be closed, but thanks to the fact that vladyka brought large foreign... and delegations for easter, not a single church was closed under him, well, this is just one episode from such a difficult activity of vladyka metropolitan nikodim, but probably, if it weren’t for him, i would be here