is a philologist-slavist, psychologist, reflexologist, volunteer of the First Moscow Hospice, the author of the book “There will be no separation.“
Frederica de Graaf was born in 1949 in Indonesia, where her father worked at that time. Six months later, the family returned to the Netherlands where Frederica lived for 25 years. In 1975, she met Metropolitan Anthony Surozhsky to change her life completely. In 1976, she came to Russia for the first time with a hospice mission. Because she was secretly baptised in Moscow, the Soviet authorithies have been denied her an enry visa for 15 years. She lived in England to be closer to her spiritual father Anthony Surozhsky. Later, she could go to Russia with the blessing of the Metropolitan. She has been living in Russia for over 17 years and has been helping the patients of the First Moscow Hospice. She knows how to listen and reveal pain, talk to the patients and be silently present with them. Frederica de Graaf participates in conferences, seminars, lectures on the specifics of handling seriously ill patients and their relatives. She teaches at the St. John the Divine Orthodox University in Moscow.

– Head of the Distance Education and Further Training Section of the Synodal Department for the Church Charity and Social Service of the Russian Orthodox Church. He graduated from Russian Technological University(MIREA) as engineer-mathematician, as well as from the theological faculty of St. Tikhon Orthodox Humanitarian University (PSTU).
In collaboration with the editors of the sites of the St. Tikhon Orthodox Theological Institute, he is engaged in content managing and developing the portal “Pastyr” intended for priests, that was started with the blessing of His Holiness the Patriarch in 2016. Father Igor is also responsible for conducting pastoral seminars, which are held monthly under the chairmanship of Vladyka Panteleimon (Shatov) at the PSTU sites.