An interdiocesan dialogue on the prospects for social service in parishes took place in Chernyakhovsktranslated

Prikhody.ru 11/11/2026. The curator of social activities in the dioceses of the North-Western Federal District of the Synodal Department for Church Charity and Social Ministry, priest Alexy Dudin, conducted a seminar “Living practices of social activities in small and medium-sized parishes” for the clergy of the Chernyakhov diocese and assistant rectors for social activities. The meeting took place on November 11 at the spiritual and educational center “Preobrazhenie” in Chernyakhovsk.

Particular attention was paid to the topic of how to create a working system of mutual assistance in the parish without huge budgets, with the help of caring people, the press service of the diocese reports. The lecturer knows this first-hand, since he himself is not only the chairman of the department for church charity and social service of the Gatchina diocese and the rector of the Church of Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Vladimir in the city of Kommunar, but also the creator of the large-scale social and educational project “Svyatograd”, as well as the head of a large family in which nine children are growing up.

The center he created in the Leningrad region grew from a modest parish initiative into a large assistance system. At the seminar, the shepherd introduced those gathered to many years of practical experience...