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On July 17, 2007, the Wall Street Journal published a front page article which identified Patriarch Alexei as a KGB agent, with the code name "Agent Drozdov" [http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB118469533202469128-lMyQjAxMDE3ODE0NzYxOTc1Wj.html] The article also published translated documents from the Estonian archives, documenting Agent Drozdov's "energetic" cooperation with the communist government.
===Holy Transfiguration Monastery and ROCOR===
In the 1960s, ROCOR took under its care [[Holy Transfiguration Monastery (Brookline, Massachusetts)]] (today the principal [[monastery]] of [[HOCNA]]) after the latter had broken communion from the [[Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America]] due to issues following sexual abuse scandals regarding the monastery's leadership. At some point later, they gradually assumed responsibility for much of ROCOR's external communications and publications. (The monks of faithHoly Transfiguration were English-speaking and the ROCOR bishops in America mainly were not. In 1983 ) It is believed by many that the allegedly sectarian spirit of ROCOR adopted came into its flowering during this time and under the Anathema against ecumenisminfluence of this monastery, which frequently misrepresented the official policies and views of the Synod of Bishops. In the early 1980s the hierarchs of the Synod began to correct and censor the narrow-minded and incorrect views of the followers of Holy Transfiguration Monastery still adheres to. In order to unite Subsequently this group broke communion with ROCOR (again regarding allegations of sexual abuse by the Moscow Patriarchatemonastery's leadership), ROCOR has disavowed styling themselves the Anathema against ecumenism[[HOCNA|Holy Orthodox Church in North America]] (HOCNA). Holy Transfiguration Monastery is presently part They became affiliated with the [[True Orthodox Church of HOCNAGreece]], a Greek Old Calendarist group which broke from the [[Church of Greece]]. According to Fr. Alexey Young (author of ''The Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia: A History and still is guided by ROCOR prior view regarding ecumenismChronology''), and the Anathema association of 1983ROCOR and Holy Transfiguration Monastery resulted in deep damage to ROCOR.
===After the Soviet fall===
Both the Moscow Patriarchate and the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia published on their respective websites the final full text of the Act of Canonical Unity [http://www.russianorthodoxchurch.ws/synod/engdocuments/enmat_akt.html] with all relevant supporting documents [http://www.russianorthodoxchurch.ws/synod/engdocuments/enmat_addendum.html] [http://www.russianorthodoxchurch.ws/synod/eng2006/11ensummation.html] on November 1, 2006. The Act having been approved by both the Moscow Patriarchate and ROCOR, it was formally signed in Moscow on May 17, 2007, followed by a concelebration of the Divine Liturgy, bringing the ROCOR into the Moscow Patriarchate.
===ROCOR Today===
Suspended bishops:
* Bishop [[Agafangel (Pashkovsky) of Simferopol|Agafangel (Pashkovsky)]], suspended for refusing to accept the union with the MP. Formerly bishop of Odessa and the Crimea. On May 17, 2007 on the day that ROCOR united with the Moscow Patriarchate, some 100 clergy began broke with Metropolitan Laurus, and began commemerating Bishop Agafangel.
Former bishops:
