*1916 There were 19 churches in China (including four in Beijing), 3 monasteries in Beijing, and 32 missions (including 14 in Zhili province, 12 in Hebei, 4 in Henan, 1 in Xi’anfu, and 1 in Mongolia), with 5,587 Orthodox Chinese adherents (including 583 who were baptized in 1915), and a thriving and expanding mission; within twenty years that number was estimated at 10,000<ref>Stephen Uhalley and Xiaoxin Wu. [http://books.google.ca/books?id=vEZI_ULqp7EC China and Christianity: Burdened Past, Hopeful Future]. M.E. Sharpe, 2001. p.22</ref>; the church also ran schools and orphanages including 17 schools for boys and 3 for girls.

*'''1917''' The [[w:Russian Revolution (1917)|Russian Revolution]] separated the Orthodox Church of China from its traditional support base in Russia, and the Chinese church had to fend for itself; the numbers of Orthodox faithful in China swelled in the wake of the Russian revolution, when anti-Bolshevik Russian emigres ([[w:White émigré|White émigrés]]) poured across the border into China, forming colonies in Harbin, Shanghai and Beijing; Harbin held the largest Russian population outside of the state of Russia.

*1922 Orthodox bishops in China came under the jurisdiction of the Synod of Russian Bishops Outside Russia [[ROCOR]] (''from 1922-1945 in Harbin, 1922-49 in Shanghai''); formation of [[Diocese of Beijing]] (including the vicariates of Shanghai and Tianjin, and later Hankou), and of the [[Diocese of Harbin]] (including Qiqihar and Hailar vicariates), under [[ROCOR]]; [[w:Church of the Intercession in Harbin| Protection (Pokrov) of the Theotokos Church]] is founded in Harbin City.

*1925 Death of St. [[Jonah of Manchuria]], Bishop of Hankou (1922-1925).

*1927-1950 [[w:Chinese Civil War|Chinese Civil War]] ''(Nationalist-Communist Civil War).''