Metropolitan Eugene held a working meeting in preparation for the Christmas educational readingstranslated

The Chairman of the Synodal Department of Religious Education and Catechesis, Metropolitan of Yekaterinburg and Verkhoturye Evgeniy held a working meeting on Friday, October 23, 2026 in preparation for the Christmas educational readings.

Bishop Eugene spoke about this in his max-channel:

– The first snow has not yet fallen, but Christmas educational readings are already in full swing for me.

Today we held the first operational meeting on the upcoming forum with Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Anna Kuznetsova.

The main result: at the Christmas parliamentary meetings in the State Duma there will be a minimum of formalism and politeness, but a maximum of meaning and life specifics, the message says.

We would like to remind you that at the meeting of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church, which took place on March 12, 2026 at the Patriarchal and Synodal residence in the Danilov Monastery in Moscow, a message was heard from His Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill, Chairman of the XXIV International Christmas Educational Readings, on the results of the Readings and the XIV Christmas Parliamentary Meetings (magazine No. 1).

The meeting participants decided to take note of the final document XXX...