The qualifying round of the X-th Afanasyevsky intellectual tournament among students of Sunday schools of the Kobrin deanery was held at the Divinsky secondary schooltranslated

On October 10, 2026, on the basis of the State Educational Institution “Divinskaya Secondary School”, the qualifying round of the traditional Afanasyevsky intellectual tournament for pupils of Sunday schools of the Kobrin deanery, dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the birth of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus', was held.

Pupils of ten Sunday schools of parishes of the Kobrin deanery took part in the intellectual competition: the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the ag. Divin, the Cathedral of the Holy Blessed Prince Alexander Nevsky in Kobrin, the Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, the Church of the Entry into the Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Kobrin, the Church of the Holy Great Martyr George the Victorious in Kobrin, the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in Kobrin, the Church of the Nativity in Kobrin, Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in ag. Povitye, the Church of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the village of Khabovichi, the Church of the Baptist and Baptist of the Lord John in the ag. Khidra, the church of St. Seraphim of Sarov in ag. Orekhovsky.

The jury included: the dean of the churches of the Kobrin district, Archpriest Sergius Utrata, the representative of the diocesan commission for the Afanasyevsky intellectual tournament, Priest Mikhail Kolodyazhny,…