The head of the Metropolitan District performed ordination as a reader for senior students of the Alma-Ata Theological Seminary (VIDEO)

On February 12, 2024, on the day of the celebration of the Council of Ecumenical Teachers and Saints Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian and John Chrysostom, Metropolitan Alexander of Astana and Kazakhstan celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the Matroninsky Church of the Iversko-Seraphim Convent of the city of Alma-Ata - the house church of the Alma-Ata Theological Seminary.

Before the start of the service, the Primate of the Orthodox Church of Kazakhstan performed ordination for the readers of senior students of the theological school: Georgy Tkachenko, Alexander Goncharov, Mikhail Kalmykov, Vladimir Yudin, Ilya Vorobyov, Nikolai Tolmachev, Daniil Pasyuk, Vladislav Platonov.

At the end of the ceremony, the Head of the Metropolitan District addressed the newly ordained with parting words.