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[[Image:Anthony Bloom.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Metr. [[Anthony (Bloom) of Sourozh]]]] In the initial decades of the existence of the diocese, the diocese was centred in London and Oxford, consisting mainly of upper middle-class ex-Anglican converts and families of the first emigration from Russia. During these years, the political situation between the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union meant that the Moscow Patriarchate could exercise virtually no control over Sourozh diocese. Metr. Anthony encouraged the development of a distinctive style, liturgical practice and ethos within the diocese which reflected the fusion of Franco-Russian emigres and Oxford-London ex-Anglicans in the diocese. This included native-language liturgy, frequent communion, discression over confession before each communion, a relaxed attitude to tradition Russian church dress (e.g. for women: skirts and headscarves), permission of marriage on Saturdays and an avoidance of celebrating the full hierarchical liturgy according to the standard [[typikon ]] of the Russian Orthodox Church.

After MetrFrom the last years of the Soviet Union, large numbers of Russian Orthodox economic migrants arrived in the United Kingdom from Russian lands. Anthony's death Many were surprised by and uncomfortable with and unhappy at the idiosyncracies of ethos, style and liturgical practice which were standard in 2003the diocese. A vocal minority of these Orthodox from Russia began to complain vociferously to the Diocese and, administration later, to the Moscow Patriarchate itself. In their own eyes, they sought the conformity of the ethos and liturgical practice of the diocese was given by with the standard [[Holy Synodtypikon]] of Moscow to [[Bishop]] [[Basil (Osborne) the Russian Orthodox Church; in the eyes of Sergievo]]the Oxford-London ex-Anglicans, who had been Anthony's this amounted to the [[auxiliary bishop|auxiliaryRussification]]. He was never named as the ruling bishop of the diocese but remained temporary administrator until his removal by Moscow on [[May 9]], 2006.

After the fall of Communism and breakup of the Soviet UnionShortly before his death, in a major influx of new manner which is not standard in the Russian immigration came into Great Britain. Many of these immigrants found church life in Orthodox Church (where bishops are standardly appointed by the diocese to be foreign to them[[Holy Synod]]), owing to its adaptations to British lifeMetr. A vocal minority of these new immigrants began working to re-Anthony nominated as his successor [[Russification|RussifyBishop]] Sourozh such that conflict began to emerge between those who wished to remain as they had been and those who wished to "regularize" church life according to models elsewhere in the Russian [[diasporaBasil (Osborne) of Sergievo)]]. After Metr. Anthony's death in 2003, the Holy Synod made Basil administrator of the diocese, but did not name him ruling bishop.