Anna Nikitenko, Deputy Executive Director of the Foundation for the Support of Christian Culture and Heritage, took part in the International Scientific Conference "Serbian Church Education. On the 230th anniversary of the Karlovac Seminary", which was held from October 11 to 13, 2024 at the St. Arseny Serbian Theological Seminary in Sremski Karlovci (Serbia).
The opening ceremony was attended by the Vicar of the Patriarch of Serbia, Bishop Hilarion of Novoberdsk, who read out the greeting message of the Primate of the Serbian Orthodox Church to the participants and guests of the conference, Archbishop of Sirmium and Metropolitan of Srem Basil, Archbishop and Metropolitan of Zvornitsko-Tuzlansky Photius, Chairman of the Sremskie Karlovci community D. Djurgic, President of the oldest Serbian literary, cultural and scientific organization "Matitsa Serbian" D. Stanich, as well as the director of the Alexander Solzhenitsyn House of Russian Abroad, V.A. Moskvin.
The conference was attended by the Deputy Chairman of the Department for External Church Relations (DECR) Archpriest Igor Yakimchuk of the Moscow Patriarchate and Andrey Khoshev, an employee of the DECR Secretariat for Inter-Orthodox Relations. Archpriest Igor Yakimchuk made a presentation on "The History of the Renaissance and the current state of spiritual education in the Russian Orthodox Church," and Associate Professor of the Moscow Theological Academy Andrey Khoshev presented a report on "The main milestones in the history of the development of Russian spiritual education before the Revolution."
According to the seminary's website, participants from Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria, France, Macedonia, Poland, Russia, Sweden, Greece, Croatia and Montenegro presented their works at the scientific conference.