Moscow, June 19, 2018
Photo: blagovest-info.ru The Summer Institute for representatives of the Orthodox Church in America, organized with the blessing of Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev) of Volokolamsk, will begin its work in Moscow on Friday at the Sts. Cyril and Methodius postgraduate and doctoral school, reports the site of the Russian Orthodox Church.
The institute will be attended by clergy and professors of the Orthodox Church in America, with the delegation being headed by Bishop Daniel of Santa Rosa, and will include lectures and speeches from Church and secular experts.
The OCA representatives will meet with Met. Hilarion, the rector of the Postgraduate and Doctoral Studies and Chairman of the Department for External Church Relations (DECR), and the DECR Secretary for Inter-Christian Relations Hieromonk Stephen (Igumnov). They will also visit the Synodal Department for Religious Education and Catechism, the Department For Relations Between the Church and Society and the Media, and the Department for Church Charity.
The Summer Institute program also includes visits to holy places and numerous churches throughout Moscow and the Moscow region, including Danilov, Donskoy, Sretensky, and Sts. Martha and Mary Monasteries, the territory and cathedrals of the Kremlin, and Christ the Savior Cathedral. They will also visit several seminaries and Orthodox institutions of higher learning.
One of the days will also be devoted to visiting the Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra and Moscow Theological Academy in Sergiev Posad.
The Summer Institute will continue through June 29.
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