ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a broad chronological sweep across the century, highlighting the development of the discourse of Orthodox Christians in Western Europe. It is difficult to ascertain what the Russian intellectuals expected when they arrived in Western Europe, but at least, they saw it as their duty to continue the spiritual journey they had started and develop the Orthodox Church in exile. In other words, it was Evlogii's jurisdictional switch that turned the organisation of the Orthodox Diaspora into a geopolitical problem and started the jurisdictional mess in Western Europe. It was Evlogii's switch and the creation of the Archdiocese of Russian Orthodox Parishes in Western Europe Exarchate of the Patriarchate of Constantinople that set later developments in motion, leading to the need to ask the author research question in the first place. Instead of being primarily concerned with how to make Orthodoxy suit Western European cultures, it turned to keeping migrants from Orthodox countries linked to their home countries.
