 On January 29, 1944 with his wife, daughter and granddaughter arrived in Warsaw and at the request of the local German administration, several months ministered various support non-German parts formed from the East.May 26, 1944, calling themselves "Orthodox leader for legionnaires and Wehrmacht military units and garrisons in the General Government," for the first time addressed the Synod of Bishops of the ROCOR with a petition to adopt it in canonical communion.Response from the Synod was not followed, but one of its members, the Metropolitan of Berlin and Germany Seraphim (Lade), June 21, wrote to the Archbishop that comes with it and its accompanying Cossacks in communion.