The activities of metropolitan Anthony (Khrapovitsky) in exile

Metropolitan Anthony (Khrapovitsky), living abroad since 1920, was one of the founders of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, headed the Highest Russian Church Administration Abroad. Soon there was his conflict with the Moscow Patriarchate, which ended with the rupture of the Churches. At the same time, the Metropolitan considered unacceptable any interference of the Patriarchate of Constantinople in the life of the Russian Church. In his sermons, writings and speeches, Metropolitan Anthony defended the ideas of the Orthodox autocratic monarchy, condemned ecumenical and philocatolic views, church modernism, including sophology. Archimandrite Cyprian (Kern), commenting on the views of the metropolitan, noted that for him the Tsar “was a dogma of faith”, “part of his religious symbol”. Anthony secured the condemnation by Russian Orthodox Church Abroad of Freemasonry as a criminal organization. He enjoyed high prestige among the Russian emigration. At the same time, certain theological ideas of Anthony (about the single human nature, about redemption, about original sin) were criticized. He died in Sremski Karlovci in 1936, having accepted the schema before his death.