A section of the Diocesan Department for Culture was held at the Kuban State Institute of Culturetranslated

A section of the Diocesan Department for Culture was held at the Kuban State Institute of Culture, chaired by Bishop Seraphim of Yeisk and Timashevsky. The section was led by the head of the department, Archpriest Andrei Kravchenko. Among the audience were students and teachers from various faculties of the institute.

The section participants discussed the topic of interaction between the Orthodox Church and national cultural identity. Scientists, teachers and cultural figures united to talk about the preservation of spiritual traditions. Presentations were made by Oksana Perenizhko, Ksenia Deryagina, Svetlana Kravchenko, Sergey Manakov, Nadezhda Mitrofanova, Svetlana Khvatova and Sergey Kizym. During the meeting, fragments of sacred music by Kuban composers were heard, a presentation was made about church painting, and a video was shown with the performance of the Krasnodar anthem accompanied by the ringing of bells.

At the end of the reports, Bishop Seraphim had a short conversation with the students, answering their questions about the role of Orthodoxy in the formation of national identity. The work of the section became an important step in the preservation and development of the cultural heritage of Kuban, demonstrating the importance of an interdisciplinary approach to the study of Orthodox culture.

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