The teacher of the Novosibirsk Orthodox Theological Seminary, Priest Dionisy Vasiliev, took part in the III All-Russian Scientific Conference “Church and Society in Russia”translated

On October 29, 2026, the III All-Russian Scientific Conference “Church and Society in Russia” was held at the spiritual and educational center of the Iskitim diocese. The event brought together historians, local historians, theologians, university teachers and researchers from different regions of the country - from Moscow and St. Petersburg to Tomsk, Khanty-Mansiysk and the Novosibirsk region. The work of the conference was blessed by Bishop Leonid of Iskitim and Cherepanovsk. Among the speakers at the conference was Priest Dionisy Vasiliev, a senior lecturer in the department of humanities at the Novosibirsk Orthodox Theological Seminary. He presented an in-person presentation on the topic “The image of a priest in Russian folk tales based on popular collections of the 19th–20th centuries.” In his report, Father Dionysius analyzed how the image of a priest, reflected in popular collections of Russian folk tales, was formed and transformed in the oral tradition over two centuries.

The study aroused keen interest among the audience, as it touched upon issues of interaction between church culture and folk art, as well as the specifics of the perception of the clergy in traditional Russian society. The conference program covered a wide range of topics: from…