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As the decade ended, Bp. Vladimir became cognizant of the strains that had developed among the Slavic emigrants who were members of the [[Unia]] from the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In late 1890, he met with a group from Minneapolis, Minnesota led by Fr. Alexis Toth, the future St. [[Alexis of Wilkes-Barre]]. On [[March 25]], 1891, Fr. Alexis and his parish were received back into the Orthodox Church by Bp. Vladimir, starting the movement that was to continued for several decades. In his search for Orthodox communities to lead back to Orthodoxy Bp. Vladimir traveled widely, crossing the continent three times in his efforts.
Bp. Vladimir's tenure as bishop of the North American diocese was cut short when he was assigned on [[June 8]], 1891 as Bishop of Ostrogozhsk, an auxiliary of the Voronezh Diocese. It was October before he departed from North America for his new position. Later, from [[December 22]], 1896, he was assigned ruling hierarch of the Diocese of Orenburg and the Urals, and from [[November 26]], 1903 he was the ruling bishop of the Diocese of Yekateriniberg and Irbit. Due to illness, Bp. Vladimir was granted retirement on [[March 18]], 1910 from active episcopal duties, but was appointed abbot of the [[Andronikov Monastery (Moscow)|Andronikov Monastery]] in Moscow.
In 1921, Patriarch Tikhon raised Bp. Vladimir to the rank of [[archbishop]] and appointed him as the ruling hierarch of Yekaterinoslav (now Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine). But, the turmoil of the Bolshevik takeover of Russia prevented him from reaching his diocese, and he remained in Moscow. He became associated briefly in 1926 with the Gregorian schism in the Russian Church, but quickly repented and returned to the canonical church. Isolated in Soviet Russia and suffering utter poverty, Abp. Vladimir died on [[November 27]], 1931 and was buried next to the altar of the All Saints Church in the Moscow suburbs where he had been serving.
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