The second part Orthodox Parish in Cyprus and Greece: a Parish Priest’s View of the collection begins with the interview of two Greek priests wellknown in Greece with their missionary and social work. This is an interview of hereditary archpriest Konstantin Vletsis speaking about changes taking place in the education of priests in modern Greece due to transition of the best part of parishes to cities and particularities of modern parish life in this respect; and archpriest Vasilios Kalliakmanis, the parish abbot, who have been arranging free meals for the poor for many years, reveals in his interview conditions for creating close-knit communities. Further the priest Georgy Vidyakin’s interview follows this part of the collection. Georgy Vidyakin is a current abbot of the first Russian-speaking parish of Cyprus, who tells about history of its establishing, difficulties and particularities of organizing the parish fife in Cyprus; archimandrite Augustin (Karras) who describes the parish fife under conditions of occupation and fashionable tourism of Aya Napa; priest Alexey Avsievich, the superior of Russian-speaking seasonal communities; priest Sergey Kozlov who serves in a village parish; and archimandrite Ambrose (Gorelov) who currently makes every effort to organize Russian monkery in Cyprus.

The third part of the collection The Role of the Russian-speaking community in society. Parishioners’ Review includes interviews and focus group of parishioners, both Russian-speaking and Greek communities. Churchwomen of Saint Seraphim of Sarov Orthodox Church in Thessaloniki, Pontic elder women, who have carried their faith through all their lives under conditions of emigration and seeking for homeland, tell about keeping orthodox traditions early in Soviet Georgia, and then in modern Greece. A group interview with women volunteers, churchwomen of the church of St. George (Thessalonica) is dedicated to the traditions of free meals as a social mission of Greek Orthodox Church’ parishes. This part of the collection ends with an interview of a churchwoman of the Russian-language St. Nicholas church in Limassol, which introduces parishioners’ views of the priest’s role in a parish abroad to the reader.

Materials collected in parishes in Russia made valuable contribution to the collection, having become a certain background for comparison – priests, charity providers, parishioners of the Tikhvinskaya eparchy of St. Petersburg metropolis share their many-years experience of social serving and fighting alcohol and drug addictions on the pages of the fifth collection.

Their interviews are included in the fourth part “Parish in Russia. Experience of St. Petersburg Metropolis in Dealing with Socially Unprotected Groups of Population” of the collection. It begins with an interview of a young priest, the abbot of the Church of the Nativity of the Church of the Holy Trinity of Alexander of Svir friary mission of St. Petersburg, priest Sergey Lyadve, whose priest service is carried out in one of the rough parts of St. Petersburg – so-called “Vesyoly Posyolok” (Jolly Town). In his interview he shares the experience of organizing help groups for alcohol- and drug addicts within a parish. Elena Rydavlevskaya, the Executive Director of the Diakoniya charity fund, continues studying the topic of social service helping alcohol- and drug addicts. She managed to develop a system project for such help involving church and state authorities, business and philanthropists. Another priest’s interview of this part of the collection gives an account of everyday life of a rehabilitation center for alcohol- and drug addicts under parish in the Sologubovka settlement of the Kirov district of the Leningrad Region. An interview of parishioner of the Church of the Nativity of the Church of the Holy Trinity of Alexander of Svir friary mission Ekaterina Bashkirova turns over another page of parish social service – “Mercy Bus”, rendering help to the homeless. In her interview she shares the experience of communicating with homeless people, organizing such a mission within a parish. This part of the collection ends with an interview of a 60-year woman, a parishioner of the Church of the Nativity of the Church of the Holy Trinity of Alexander of Svir friary mission, an alcohol addict in the recent past. It describes the alcohol addict’s walk of life and the role of orthodox parish in overcoming this addiction.