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On May 1, at the session hall of the Holy Dormition Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra (block No. 45) the international Scientific Workshop Conference "Orthodoxy and modernity: experience of encounter", dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Kyiv Religious Philosophical Fellowship.

It is taking place on the blessing of His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr and is organized by the Kyiv Religious Philosophical Fellowship, Kyiv Theological Academy and Seminary, Missionary Department to the Holy Synod of the UOC, Theological Pedagogical Courses of the All-Ukraine Orthodox Pedagogical Fellowship.

The first part of the conference was opened by the greeting word of His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr, who wished its participants good luck and God's assistance.

Thereafter the participants and the guests of the forum were greeted by Rector of the Kyiv Theological Academy and Seminary, Archbishop Anthony of Boryspil, and the greeting addresses of Metropolitan Ioanniky of Luhansk and Alchevsk and Chair of the Missionary Department to the Holy Synod of the UOC Archbishop Philip of Poltava and Myrhorod were read out. Besides, Vice-Rector on Scientific and Methodical Work of the Uzhgorod Theological Seminary hegumen Euphrosyne (Bilash), who also awarded Head of the Kyiv Religious Philosophical Fellowship archpriest Mykolai Makar with the medal of the Holy and Equal-to-the-Apostles Cyril and Methodius, 2nd degree.

At the end of the first part of the Conference Metropolitan Volodymyr was offered as presents the issues of the revived print organ of the Kyiv Religious Philosophical Fellowship - magazine "Hrystyanska Dumka" ("Christian Thought").

The International Scientific Workshop Conference "Orthodoxy and Modernity: Experience of encounter" will be held between May 1-4.

By the way. The Kyiv Religious Philosophical Fellowship had worked throughout 1908 - 1919. Its origin, similar to the other organizations of the kind was due to the return of the intellectuals to the fold of the Orthodox Church, with a desire to comprehend the most topical issues of the modernity in the perspective of the orthodox stance. The Kyiv Religious Philosophical Fellowship was restored in 2003 on the blessing of His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr.

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