At the IOPS Center, Sergei Stepashin and Metropolitan Longin discussed the results of the construction of the Alexander Nevsky Churchtranslated

On October 16, 2026, a working meeting between the Chairman of the Society Sergei Stepashin and Metropolitan Longin of Simbirsk and Novospassky was held at the Center of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society in Moscow. The main topics of the meeting were the successful completion of a large-scale five-year construction of a spiritual center in Ulyanovsk, the return of the historical heritage of the region and the solution to personnel challenges of the diocese.