11-02-19 Meetings of Minister Kostas Gavroglou with delegations of the Church of Greece and the Ecumenical Patriarchatetranslated

July 6, 2026 · 1 min read

11-02-19 Meetings of Minister Kostas Gavroglou with delegations of the Church of Greece and the Ecumenical Patriarchate Ministry of Education

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Людмила Шевчук

I wonder if they discussed the issue of education in schools, or more about the funding of seminaries. The Greek Minister of Education after all.

Марина Андреева

Tsikavo, we discussed it ourselves. The minister will, nevertheless, perhaps enlighten both about the teaching of the Law of God in school and about seminaries. Lyudmila, what do you think the stink of those henchmen was about?

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სალომე ნოზაძე

I wonder if they remembered something concrete about school textbooks from religion, how girls write. Все ж Minister of Education, тож семинарийи и Закон Божий в школах, apparently, were the main ones. And how do you think it affected our parish Sunday schools?

Alexander Miller

I wonder if they talked about updating the actual religion textbooks used in Greek public schools. The minister of education would have to deal with that side of things, not just seminary funding. Salomé, our Sunday school here in Portland still uses some of those older Greek materials, so any changes would matter to us too.

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ნიკოლოზ გელაშვილი

I think they were talking about school textbooks and the status of the subject, because Gabroglu is directly the Minister of Education. In our parochial Sunday school, this did not affect it much, children still come as before. What do you think, should we demand more cooperation with the public school?

Вера Беляева

It’s great that everyone writes about religious teaching in schools. Here in Novosibirsk, in the weekly school at the church, we are also taught by old Greek companions, and the children accept them kindly. And where did they come from the funding of the seminary, the minister of education, not just school programs.

Галина Соколова

Yes, Vera, you are right, after all, he is the minister of education, so seminaries are also under his jurisdiction. In our Sunday school in Yaroslavl we also keep old Greek manuals; my grandson especially likes to look at the pictures in them. They said something about funding seminaries at these meetings, didn’t you notice?

Sarah Moore

I hadn't thought about the school textbooks, Alexander. Our parish in San Francisco still pulls out those same older Greek readers for the kids' classes some Sundays, and they're pretty dry. Did you hear anything specific about updates, or is it just wishful thinking on our part?

Роман Киселёв

Vera, as they accurately noted, is the Minister of Education, which means that the conversation could also come up about seminaries. In our Sunday school in Yekaterinburg, we also use old Greek textbooks; my son sometimes leafs through them, especially when I am knitting next to him. Have you heard if they were discussing scholarships for seminarians?

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