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There was a group from the [[Assyrian Church of the East|Assyrian Church]] of the East that converted to Orthodoxy in 1898. In the mid 1890's, [[Yonan of of Urmia|Abun Mar Yonan]], the Nestorian Bishop of Urmia, petitioned the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church that he and his flock be received into the Russian Church. Mar Yonan traveled to [[w:Saint Petersburg|Saint Petersburg]] in 1898, where he and several of his clergy accepted Orthodoxy. They were received into the Russian Orthodox Church by confession of faith and vesting on the Feast of the [[Annunciation]] at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in [[Saint Alexander Nevsky Lavra]]. The services were presided over by Metropolitan [[Palladius (Raev) of Saint Petersburg]]. Also in 1898, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church established the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Urmia, in order to aid [[Yonan of Urmia|Mar Yonan]] in the conversion and education of his flock.