spiritual mentor and friend of “Good Deed”, was, together with Alina Titova, at the origin of establishing the Russian Orthodox Diakonia in Germany.
He was born in Moscow. He has emigrated with his family to New York in 1977. Since 1983 he lives in Germany. He graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Munich.
In 1990, Ilya Limberger was ordained a priest and appointed to the parish of St. Nicholas in Stuttgart.

Archpriest Ilya is actively engaged in the work with Orthodox youth in Germany. He is a member of the youth council at the Synod of Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia. He speaks Russian, German, English and Serbian. He is the father of five children.

the organizer and leader of the volunteer organization “Russian Orthodox Diakonia in Europe “Good Deed””. In the past, she was publishing a Russian newspaper in Europe. Once she has posted an announcement about an ill child who required help. Since then, helping ill children has gradually replaced the publishing activities. Like-minded people came and helped to organize this assistance. After some time it became clear that the personal help is not enough, and there is a need in an organization to create a system for help.

This is how the Diakonia emerged. And, despite the fact that “Good Deed” is a completely voluntary organization and all activities are based on the enthusiasm of the volunteers, the organization has the clear-cut structure and provides a coordinated work of all its memers.

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.

Germany, Krefeld, July 5-7, 2019

Traditions of Christian charity and new technologies in volunteer work

Last update: 21-6-2019
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Address: Wielandstraße 11, 47799 Krefeld
Contact: +49 178 5408805, Alina Titova
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