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In February 2005 His Grace Archbishop Hilarion received into the Diocese clergy and parishioners of the [[Gereja Orthodox Indonesia|Indonesian Orthodox Church]] who were formerly under the jurisdiction of the [[Orthodox Metropolitanate of Hong Kong and Southeast Asia]] ([[Church of Constantinople|Ecumenical Patriarchate]]), and there are now a growing number of parishes and mission centres scattered throughout Indonesia.
The Diocese of Australia and New Zealand, as a part of the [[Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia]], is involved in the process to reenter communion with the [[Church of Russia]].[http://orthodoxwiki.org/Russian_Orthodox_Church_Outside_Russia#After_the_Soviet_Fall][http://orthodoxwiki.org/Russian_Orthodox_Church_Outside_Russia#Rapprochement_with_Moscow] The majority of laity and clergy in Australia support reunion with Moscow. However a small minority are opposed to reunion and are demanding substantial concessions from Moscow despite the manifest visible changes and public declarations of the Church in Russia, now free from state control, since the fall of the Soviet Union.[http://orthodoxeurope.org/page/3/14.aspx]Patriarch Alexey of Russia in 1993 made a statement of public repentance for the murder of the Royal Martyrs by the Communists.
On September 6, 2006 The Synod of Bishops of ROCOR decreed their confirmation and approval of the revised Act of Canonical Unity and instructed the Commission on Discussion with the Moscow Patriarchate to work jointly with the Moscow Patriarchate to work out details of the official signing of the Act. [http://www.russianorthodoxchurch.ws/synod/eng2006/9enaktko.html] Subsequently on September 11, 2006 The Synod of Bishops of ROCOR published on ROCOR's website a clarification of their decision to confirm and approve the Act. [http://www.russianorthodoxchurch.ws/synod/eng2006/9enaktexplanantion.html] Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia acknowledged the work of the commissions and declared that the act of reunification, while moving in the right direction, will take time. [http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=1977]