From June 25 to 27, 2024, the Kursk Eparchy was visited by a visiting accreditation team of the Interdepartmental Commission for the Education of Monastics of the Russian Orthodox Church.
A visiting accreditation team was formed with the blessing of the Chairman of the Interdepartmental Commission for the Education of Monastics of the Russian Orthodox Church.
The visiting accreditation group was formed with the blessing of the chairman of the Interdepartmental Commission on the Education of Monastics of the Russian Orthodox Church archimandrite Stephan (Tarakanov) in fulfillment of the normative requirements «Provisions on the Church accreditation of basic training courses in theology for monastics of the Russian Orthodox Church and the issuance to spiritual educational organizations and monasteries of a representation of the Interdepartmental Commission on the Education of Monastics of the Russian Orthodox Church.
The courses of basic training in theology for monastics of the Kursk diocese were organized in 2021 with the blessing of Metropolitan German of Kursk and Rylsk on the basis of the Kursk Theological Seminary. The first graduation of the courses will be completed in 2024 on the basis of the Interdiocesan Training Center church specialists of the Kursk diocese.
The visiting accreditation group included: chairman — Archimandrite Bartholomew (Petrov), member of the Board of the Synodal Department for Monasteries and Monasticism, a resident of Savvino-Storozhevsky Stavropigial Monastery; secretary — nun Anuvia (Vinogradova), candidate of historical sciences, secretary of the Interdepartmental Commission for the Education of Monastics, treasurer of the Ioanno-Predteechensky Stavropigial Nunnery in Moscow; nun Feonilla (Kharchenko), assistant secretary of the Interdepartmental Commission for the Education of Monastics, and treasurer On June 25, the visiting commission was met in the city of Kursk by the head of the course, candidate of theology, director of the Interdeparchial Center for the Training of Church Specialists of the Kursk diocese, Priest Roman Katsap. At the diocesan office the members of the commission met with Metropolitan German of Kursk and Rylsk. The head of the Kursk Metropolitanate warmly welcomed the visiting accreditation group to the Kursk land and spoke about life in the monasteries of the diocese, Archimandrite Bartholomew and members of the visiting group thanked Vladyka Herman for the meeting and handed over a magazine with the educational and methodological complexes of the eight main disciplines of the courses for monastics. Archimandrite Bartholomew and members of the visiting group thanked Vladyka Herman for the meeting and handed over a magazine with educational and methodological complexes for eight basic disciplines of courses for monastics. UMK developed by members of the Interdepartmental Commission with the involvement of leading experts and published as a supplement to the magazine «Monastic Bulletin».
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On the same day, the visiting accreditation team visited the basic training site of the course — Interdeparchial Center for the training of church professionals of the Kursk diocese. Here the members of the visiting team checked the documentation of the courses, inspected the classrooms, material and technical equipment and the library collection of basic literature for the courses.
In the morning of June 26, the visiting working group went to the Zolotukhinsky nunnery of the Venerable Alexis, the Man of God, where the certification of monastics in the form of a credit in the discipline «History of monasticism and ascetics» took place.The commission was welcomed by the abbess Hegumeness Elisaveta (Semenova) and her sisters, as well as the abbess of the Kursk Holy Trinity Monastery Hegumeness Susanna (Barykina) and her sisters.
Together with members of the accreditation team and the director of the Interdiocesan Center. The teacher of the discipline «History of Monasticism and Ascetics» Hieromonk Athanasius (Zimin), a resident of the Znamensky Monastery in Kursk, took the credit. Kursk. The sisters were certified according to the traditional system. They were asked to choose one of 35 tickets, each containing two questions. The abbesses of the two nunneries passed the test among the first. A total of 36 women students successfully passed the test at this training site.
June 27 was held certification of monastics in the form of credit in Kursk Korenaya Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary male desert. The members of the commission lived these days in the monastery, so they had time to get acquainted with the monastery and the vicar, Hegumen Seraphim (Kotelnikov). The brethren of the Kornaya Desert Monastery and Rylsk St. Nicholas Monastery also took tickets, prepared and passed the test, trying to show the knowledge they had received. At this training site, 10 brothers from the two monasteries passed the test.
The representatives of the commission noted the good knowledge of the students, and the wish was expressed to continue the work of the course in all monasteries of the diocese, so that all the nuns and nuns of the monasteries, as well as all the monastics of the Kursk Metropolis could be trained and receive a basic training. Theological level.
At the training sites, the members of the commission checked the availability of literature from the main list and equipment for the work of the course. During the work of the visiting group members handed over to the head of the course and the teacher of the subject «History of Monasticism and Ascetics» educational and methodological complexes for eight subjects, published as a supplement to the magazine «Monastic Herald». Members of the commission also donated other literature published by the Synodal Department for Monasteries and Monasticism to the monasteries.
For a total of 46 students of the courses of basic training in theology for monastics successfully passed the credits during the three days of work of the visiting accreditation group in the Kursk diocese; the nuns and nuns of two male and two female monasteries of the Kursk diocese.
A total of 46 students of the courses of basic training in theology for monastics successfully passed the credits.
Participants of the commission also visited holy places of the Kursk diocese; the Znamensky Monastery of Kursk and the Kursk Sergiev-Kazan Cathedral; a place associated with the memory of St. Seraphim of Sarov, a native of Kursk.
The commission also visited holy places of the Kursk diocese.
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