Natalia Kochanova, Patriarch Kirill and Metropolitan Pavel took part in a solemn stamp cancellation ceremony to mark the 1000th anniversary of the demise of St Vladimir

Patriarch Kirill attends the opening of the ecclesiastical educational center of the Belarusian Orthodox Church in Minsk

The Minsk Ecclesiastical Academy from the Zhirovichi Monastery as well as the premises of the Belarusian Exarchate will be housed in a complex next to the main Orthodox temple of the Belarusian capital. It is planned that the ecclesiastical educational center of the Belarusian Orthodox Church will become a center of educational, cultural and youth programs.

The ecclesiastical educational center of the Belarusian Orthodox Church is opened (from left to right) by Deputy Head of the Belarus President’s Administration Igor Buzovsky, Commissioner on Religious and Ethnic Affairs of the Republic of Belarus Leonid Gulyako, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, Vice Premier Natalia Kochanova, Metropolitan of Minsk and Zaslavl Pavel, Patriarchal Exarch of All Belarus.