Иоанн Кронштадтский
The council elected the 15th Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, Metropolitan Alexy of Leningrad and Novgorod (Ridiger) and canonized confessors, martyrs and saints, including St. John of Kronstadt. During the council discussed the problem of relations with the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, combat the activation of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church in western Ukraine and relations with the state.