On November 15, the Chamber «Serbia» — Government Complex of the Republic of Serbia in Belgrade — hosted an international scientific conference «100 years of the Holy Trinity Church of the Russian Orthodox Church's Suburbs and its relations with the Serbian Orthodox Church», organized by the Government of Serbia and the Farmstead of the Russian Orthodox Church in Belgrade.
The conference was attended by an official delegation of the Russian Orthodox Church, which arrived in Serbia to participate in the celebrations on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the church of the Russian Podvorye Belgrade, headed by the chairman of Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate Metropolitan Anthony of Volokolamsk, who addressed a welcoming speech to the participants, organizers and guests of the international scientific forum.
Metropolitan Anthony of Volokolamsk.
Welcoming speeches were also made by the representative of Holy Patriarch Porfiry of Serbia, Bishop Nectarius of London and Great Britain-Ireland, Archpriest Vitaly Tarasiev, rector of the Russian Orthodox Church's podvorye in Belgrade, Chairman of the Serbian People's Party and Minister without Portfolio. N. Popovic of the Government of the Republic of Serbia, as well as the Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Serbia A.A. Botsan-Kharchenko.
The conference gathered renowned scientists from Serbia, the Republic of Srpska and the Russian Federation.
The conference brought together renowned scholars from Serbia, the Republic of Srpska and the Russian Federation. Presentations were made by prominent Russian historians of Slavic studies E.Y. Guskova, E.A. Botsan-Kharchenko. Guskova, E.A. Bondareva and N.A. Narochnitskaya, their Serbian colleagues A. Raković and A. Mitić, Deputy Dean of the Pravda University. Mitic, Deputy Dean of the Orthodox Theological Faculty of the University of Eastern Sarajevo, Archpriest Darko Djogo, Rector of the Theological Seminary in Sremski Karlovci, Archpriest John Milanovic, Deputy Chairman of the Office of the Ministry of Justice of Serbia for Relations with Churches and Religious Associations M. Nikolic and Director of the Library of the Serbian Patriarchate Z. Nedeljkovic. A.Y. Hoshev, a member of the Secretariat of the Russian Orthodox Church in Belgrade, also made a report on the history of the Russian Orthodox Church in Belgrade.
At the end of the international conference in honor of its participants and guests was given a reception in the premises of the Chamber «Serbia».
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