“Church, family and school”, conference

At the October 18 board meeting, representatives of the Latvian Orthodox Church informed that on Thursday, October 25, the 11th International Conference “Church, Family and School” will take place in the premises of the “Splendid Palace” cinema (Elizabetes Street 61). The conference participants will include several distinguished speakers, including Professor Alexei Osipov of the Moscow Theological Academy.

More information about the conference and its participants can be obtained at: www.pareizticiba.lv

Conference program:

10:20 Address by His Eminence, the Most Reverend Alexander, Metropolitan of Riga and All Latvia, to the conference participants.
10:40 Address by Riga City Council Chairman Nils Usakovs.
10:50 Greeting by Zbignevs Stankevics, Archbishop-Metropolitan of the Roman Catholic Church in Latvia.
11:00 Greeting by Janis Vanags, Archbishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia.
11:10 Greeting by Nikolai Ivanov, representative of the Riga Grebenshchikov Old Believers' community.
11:15 Greeting by Olga Veidina, Chair of the Riga City Council Social Affairs Committee.
11:25 Greeting by a representative of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Latvia.
11:30 Greeting by priest Vladislav Alyoshin, representative of the Estonian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate.
11:35 Greeting by Archimandrite Philip (Filipov), representative of the Syktyvkar-Vorkuta Diocese (Komi Republic, Russian Federation).
11:40 Greeting by Svetlana Savicka, member of the Riga City Council Social Affairs Committee and Deputy Chair of the Education, Culture and Sports Committee.
11:45 Greeting by Hosrov Stepanyan, head of St. Gregory the Illuminator Armenian Church in Riga.
11:50 Greeting by Professor Skaidrite Anna Gutmane, Rector of the Latvian Christian Academy.
11:55 Greeting by Arvids Barsevskis, Rector of Daugavpils University.
12:00 Greeting by Valentina Mikuleca, representative of the Vilnius-Lithuania Diocese.
Conclusion of the official part of the conference.
Coffee break.

First plenary session.

12:20 Inese Svekla, Director of the Riga City Council Welfare Department. “The social support system in Riga”.
12:50 Inga Dreimane, specialist of the Riga City Council Welfare Department. “Addictions and their prevention”.
13:10 Alexei Osipov, Professor of the Moscow Theological Academy. “Toward spiritual and moral upbringing and education”.
13:40 Irina Siluyanova, Professor at the Russian State Medical University, Doctor of Philosophy, member of the Moscow Patriarchate Medical Ethics Council. “Surrogacy - a phenomenon of modern society”.
14:00 End of the first plenary session.
Lunch.

Second plenary session.

15:00 Vasily Irzabekov, Director of the Orthodox Center of St. Luke (Voino-Yasenetsky), author and host of the television program “Secrets of the Russian Language”. “Culture as mission”.
15:30 Viktor Molchanov, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Head of the Manuscripts Research Department of the Russian State Library. “The role of book culture in shaping the Russian elite: history and today”.
15:50 Archimandrite Philip (Filipov), Secretary of the Diocesan Administration of the Syktyvkar-Vorkuta Diocese, Doctor of Theology, Candidate of Medical Sciences. “Youth ministry among socially vulnerable population groups”.
16:10 Anna Lizona, representative of the Latvian Orthodox Church Youth Association. “The activities of the Orthodox youth group of Riga's Church of the Holy Right-Believing Grand Prince Alexander Nevsky”.
16:20 Tatiana Sklyarova, Professor, Dean of Moscow Orthodox St. Tikhon's University. “The influence of Orthodox culture on the formation of consciousness in childhood”.
16:40 Olga Yanushkyavichene, Professor at Vilnius Pedagogical University. “Contemporary education reforms and the family”.
16:55 Archpriest Viktor Gurov, Director General of the youth center “Novaya Korcheva” in Konakovo, Tver Diocese (Russian Federation). “The role of the Christian mother in the child's spiritual and moral upbringing”.
17:10 Lev Anisov, writer, lecturer in the history of Russian painting and Russian literature at the Moscow Theological Academy. “Examples of harmonious marriage in Russian classical literature”.
17:25 Alevtina Zharova, head of the Moscow children's literary and artistic gallery “Wonderbird” («Жар – птица»). “Sowing the reasonable, the good, the eternal: spiritual, moral and cultural traditions in the family”.
17:40 Break.

17:45 Concert.

Riga Pupils' Palace student choir “Akkolada”.
Riga Pupils' Palace student choir “Riga”.
Musical composition by Zanna Drozdovska (“Varaviksne”, Kraslava).
Boys' choir “Stanica” of the “Novaya Korcheva” youth center.

Program in PDF format