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Orthodox Far East, unite!
Today and yesterday, in the service in the Grad-Khabarovsk Cathedral of the Assumption of the Mother of God, he witnessed an amazing event ...
Do not believe it, in the service yesterday and today, precisely on the week of the celebration of Orthodoxy, next to Vladyka Efrem, Bishop Bikinsky, Vicar of the Khabarovsk Diocese, stood a psalmist ... Orthodox Japanese! In addition, he is a professor at the Institute of Foreign Languages of the city of Kobe (Japan). Tosiyuki (in the baptism of Igor) Simizu teaches Russian, Russian literature and Orthodoxy. He speaks the Russian and Church Slavonic language!
He took a course of advanced training in the Khabarovsk Theological Seminary.
To my great regret, the other day (in baptism), brother Igor returns home to Japan ...
It should be recalled that just recently, within the framework of the seminar “Spiritual memory: new publishing projects on the history of Orthodoxy in the Far East of Russia”, dedicated to the Day of the Orthodox Book in Khabarovsk, in the Khabarovsk Theological Seminary on March 14, 2012, Bikinsky Ephraim, the first vice -rector of the CDS, conducted the Church Slavonic language for foreign students of Khabarovsk universities.
The guests of the seminar were represented by editions of the XVII-XIX centuries, even a lesson on these books, foreign students, mostly Chinese guys, were quite capable of students were held. Vladyka Ephraim expressed the idea of conducting a whole cycle of lectures on the Slavic language for Russian and foreign students on the basis of the Khabarovsk Theological Seminary.
PS I'm sorry for the poor quality ...
PPS quite accidentally found an interview for 2009 Professor Tosiyuki Simizu, which he kindly gave the portal "Theologian.ru":
Tosiyuki Simizu: "Japan needs equal apostle enlighteners from Russia"
http://www.bogoslov.ru/greek/text/461946.html
