In November 2025 — June 2026, the next training course for the clergy of the Patriarchal Exarchate of Africa took place in Moscow. Five henchmen from Kenya, Malawi, Uganda and Zimbabwe were trained. In the spring, in the church of St. Philip, Metropolitan of Moscow, in Meshchanskaya Sloboda, Metropolitan Konstantin consecrated his proteges as deacons, then as presbyters.
In June, Priest Vladimir Mdoka and Priest Jair Atieli, who completed a training course, visited the Yaroslavl Diocese, where they completed an internship at the church of the Yaroslavl Icon of the Mother of God under the supervision of the head of the Missionary Department of the Yaroslavl Diocese, Priest Alexy Karpov.
Getting acquainted with the shrines of the diocese and its life, Father Vladimir Mdoka and Father Jair Atieli visited the Yaroslavl Theological Seminary, where they got acquainted with the educational process and the way of life of seminarians, visited the St. Vvedensky Tolga Convent, the Assumption Cathedral, temples and monasteries of Yaroslavl.
The priests of the South African diocese have completed internships in the missionary department of the Yaroslavl Diocese.
22.06.2026, 13:00
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