The Orthodox Church of Estonia in Exile with its synod in Sweden ongoing its exercise in accordance to the canonical statutes, until eventually the restoration of Estonian independence in 1991. Before he died in 1953, Metr. Archbishop Johannes would temporarily act as a deputy metropolitan (1996-1999) of the Estonian Autonomous Church. Abortion, partly decriminalized in 1969 by an act of Parliament, was entirely decriminalized after the two R. v. Morgentaler cases (in 1988 and in 1993). Parliament tried to pass a new regulation governing abortion in 1993, but this laws failed right after a tie vote in the Senate. There was a Pskovo-Pechorsky Monastery in Petseri, two convents-in Narva and Kuremдe, a priory in Tallinn and a seminary in Petseri. The historical monastery in Petseri was preserved from the mass church destructions that happened in Soviet Russia. In 1999, the church been given a resident hierarch, Metropolitan Stephanos (Charalambides) of Tallinn who experienced previously been an auxiliary bishop less than the Ecumenical Patriarchate's Metropolitan of France. Just right before the next Soviet profession in 1944 and the dissolution of the Estonian synod, the primate of the church, Metropolitan Aleksander, went into exile alongside with 21 clergymen and about 8,000 Orthodox believers.

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