On November 12, 2026, a classroom opened in Volgograd at the Central Clinical Hospital of St. Alexy, Metropolitan of Moscow. Volunteers and nurses will be trained here to help seriously ill and bedridden patients. The new class became the thirtieth in the educational network of the church hospital.
The classroom was created jointly with the Volgograd Diocese on the basis of the city clinical hospital No. 5. Metropolitan Feodor of Volgograd and Kamyshinsky conducted a prayer service for the beginning of a good deed and the consecration of the premises.
Addressing the participants of the opening ceremony, His Eminence stressed that modern medical technologies cannot replace human participation and mercy.
"Just because we can't heal doesn't mean we can't help. Our task is to reduce the suffering of a living person, to warm him not only with warmth of the heart, but also with professional help," said Metropolitan Theodore.
The training is organized according to the professional training program for junior nurses and nursing brothers. The students have already got acquainted with the theoretical materials on the online platform of St. Alexy's Hospital. Now they will have to learn practical nursing skills under the guidance of teachers.
After successful certification, graduates will receive certificates of profession assignment and will be able to help the medical staff of Volgograd hospitals. In the future, it is planned to create a sisterhood of mercy at the hospital church in honor of the martyrs Vera, Nadezhda, Lyubov and their mother Sofia.
Alexey Zarov, Chief Physician of St. Alexy's Hospital, noted that the training of specialists in the care of the seriously ill is carried out with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill and is of church-wide importance today.
"We are very pleased that this important business will continue to develop in Volgograd, and hundreds of people will gain knowledge and skills here that will help thousands of people later," Alexey Zarov emphasized.
The new classroom is equipped with the necessary equipment with the support of the Christian Charity Foundation.

Photo: Inna Zolotovskaya