ORDER OF THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS OF THE USSR ON EXIT TO ISRAEL RUSSIAN SPIRITUAL MISSION

Stalin, Soviets and Israeli Question

ORDER OF THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS OF THE USSR ON EXIT TO ISRAEL RUSSIAN SPIRITUAL MISSION

October 14, 1948

Secret

Allow the Council for the Affairs of the Russian Orthodox Church under the Council of Ministers of the USSR to give the consent of the Moscow Patriarchate to leave the USSR for the State of Israel for the permanent work of Archimandrite Leonid (Ilya Khristoforovich Lobachev) as the head of the Russian spiritual mission in Jerusalem and Vladimir Yelkhovsky as a priest missions.

Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR

I. Stalin