How did the non-Orthodox Christian communities receive the newly-arrived Russian Orthodox Diaspora?
The Anglicans have been very helpful to the Russian Orthodox ever since we arrived in Australia in the 1920s. In the early 1920s and throughout the 20th century many influential Anglican priests were strong anti-communists, so there was always common ground to be found between the ROCOR and the local Christian churches. These days we dont have any ties with either the Anglicans or the Catholics, because they have moved so far from everything that somehow used to unite us in the past. We dont have anything to do with the Catholics or the Anglicans anymore except for acquiring their discarded places of worship. During the 1920s, the Anglicans were writing the New Book of Common Prayer; it was very Orthodox in its approach. Metropolitan Anthony Khrapovitsky of blessed memory had even said that if the Anglicans were to accept the New Book of Common Prayer there would be very little separating the Orthodox and the Anglicans, and perhaps they could even be recognized as equal to ourselves. U
