Nyora kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Metropolis yeBessarabia yakasikwa muna 1918, seArchbishopric yeChișinău, uye yakarongeka seMetropolitan, muna 1927. Haana kuita basa panguva yaigarwa neSoviet Bessarabia
(1940-1941) uye kutonga kweSoviet muMoldova (1944-1991), Metropolis yeBessarabia yakadzorerwazve musi wa14 Gunyana 1992, uye yakakwidziridzwa pachinzvimbo cheexarchate, muna 1995. Mukuru mukuru weBessarabia iye zvino ndiPetru (Păduraru).