On October 28, the plenary session of the conference "Educational Activities of the Russian Church in Africa: Problems and Prospects" was held at the Danilovskaya Hotel in Moscow. The event of the Patriarchal Exarchate of Africa was held on the sidelines of the Third Russia—Africa Summit.
The meeting was chaired by the Patriarchal Exarch of Africa, Metropolitan Constantine of Cairo and North Africa. In his main report, he presented the educational system of the exarchate. The meeting was hosted by Archpriest Tigri Khachatryan, head of the St. Mark's Spiritual and Educational Center.
The participants reviewed the main areas of church education, the training of African students in Russian theological schools, and the content of missionary conversations with schoolchildren. The reports were presented by Hieromonk Simeon (Seregin), Head of the staff of the Synodal Department of Religious Education and Catechesis, Hieromonk Luke (Pronskikh), Acting Rector of the Nikolo-Ugresh Seminary, and Priest Georgy Maksimov, head of the Missionary Department of the Exarchate.
A separate part of the meeting was devoted to the work of Orthodox schools, educational centers and orphanages in Africa. The clergy spoke about the activities of institutions in Kenya, Uganda, the Central African Republic, Tanzania and Cameroon. Among the projects presented are the St. Barnabas Educational Center in the Kenyan village of Nyabini, St. Alexy's school in Nkokongeru, Uganda, and the St. Demetrius of Thessalonica Orphanage in Yaoundé.
The conference was attended by Bishop Euthymius of Lukhovitsky, Vicar of the Patriarchal Exarchate of Africa, clergy and staff of the exarchate, students of the Moscow Theological Academy, Nikolo-Ugresh and Perervinsk Seminaries, and media representatives.