Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Bayan yarjejeniyar Molotov-Ribbentrop, Tarayyar Soviet ta haɗu da Bessarabia
da kuma ayyana Moldavian Soviet Socialist Jamhuriyar. An tilasta wa Birnin Bessarabia ya dakatar da ayyukansa. A cikin wannan lokacin, Shugabancin Moscow na Cocin Orthodox na Rasha ya kafa a yankin sabuwar jamhuriya ta Soviet sabon Diocese na Kishinev. A cikin 1990, an ɗaga shi zuwa matsayin Archdiocese.