of education for the belarusian exarchate. it exists at the academy. profile departments are the department of biblical studies, the department of church history departments that prepare future specialists who will subsequently serve in parishes in special synodal educational, synodal church departments, and some of them will remain here as future teachers, now i combine mine. and knowledge actually helps us to penetrate deeper into the contexts of the texts of the holy scriptures, into the structure of these texts, and as a result, to better understand what he wrote about the apostle paul, what the savior taught, well, in addition, the department of biblical studies itself prepares future specialists in various biblical disciplines, who will later help in teaching in parishes, who will lead sunday schools, prepares specialists who will be able to conduct various conversations in educational institutions, in schools, in principle, the entire education system at the minsk theological academy is built in such a way that the output is a ready-made specialist who could carry his own, well, from what has survived today, actually the old testament c

are in three specializations: apologetics, biblic studies and church history, church and practical disciplines, this is one department. of-time, of these twelve, eight. defended, and some of them have very good master's theses on various topics, including topics in the study of the holy scriptures, and this is very important that our graduates understand something, not only in russian or belarusian or church slavonic, but in ancient greek, but this is important, and there are works that concern our lives. activities of the belarusian orthodox church, parish ministry of the legacy of our predecessors, the holy fathers, there are works on church history, it is very important, this year there will be a wonderful, i hope, master's thesis dedicated to one of our fellow countrymen, a famous scientist in many slavist in many countries of the world, priest mikhail. bobrovsky has a master's thesis and a new word in science, we hope that he will also have a candidate's thesis. there is work concerning the history of monasteries, monasticism, and not only in our belarusian lands, but in other countries. and it is based on sources,