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Alexander became overwhelmed by the loss of funding from Russia that added to the financial chaos he had inherited, including a debt of $100,000 from Abp. Evdokim. After attempts to raise money locally failed, Bishop Alexander began to resort to mortgaging Church property. This only aggravated the problems. His financial problems also provided cause for his enemies, particularly Fr. John Kedrovsky and the dissident priests supporting him who were attempting to usurp control of the diocese in line with the Bolshevik manifesto. Alexander's lack of understanding of economic and financial matters only aggravated the situation. Additionally, the element of factionalism began to grow in Canada where the immigrants began to split into Russian and Ukrainian factions. Alexander took a strong nationalistic position and did not support his administrator Archmandrite Adam in pursuing the idea of an Ukrainian administration as had been done for Albanians and Serbians. As a result the problem remained, eventually to result in a separate Ukrainian Orthodox diocese.
In 1921, Alexander participated along with Platon in the [[ROCOR]] synod in Karlovtsy, Serbia, where he was confirmed as the primate of the Russian Metropolia in North America. As these financial and factional complications grew, Abp. Alexander decided that it was best for the church that he leave the United States. With the return of Metr. Platon to the United States ,Alexander sent a letter on [[June 7]], 1922, to Platon asking that he assume the duties of the ruling hierarch. He then departed from the United States on [[June 20]], 1922, finding himself on [[Mount Athos]] for a time and then eventually under Metr.[[Evlogy (Georgievsky) of Paris]], who had broken from the ROCOR and brought his Russian parishes in Western Europe under the [[Ecumenical Patriarchate]]. Alexander served in Belgium as a hierarch of this jurisdiction, the [[Russian Orthodox Exarchate in Western Europe]], until his death in 1960.[http://www.orthodoxresearchinstitute.org/resources/hierarchs/constantinople/former/bio_alexander_nemolovsky_metr.htm]
