Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad Meets with Postgraduates

The chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate met the Moscow Theological Academy department attached to the DECR MP postgraduate students on 31 May 2006. The meeting was also attended by Revd. Serhy Hovorun, the person-in-charge of the postgraduate studies.

In his address Metropolitan Kirill said that the postgraduates often carry out important tasks in different institutions and synodal departments of the Russian Orthodox Church and also minister its parishes in other countries. He handed out diplomas to the graduates and listened to papers of the first and second year students.