Saint Petersburg Theological Academy

The Ecclesiastical Academy of St. Petersburg (Russian: Санкт - Петербургская Православная Духовная Академия ) is an educational institution of the Russian Orthodox Church in St. Petersburg, to a museum of ecclesiastical archeology is affiliated.

Structure

The Ecclesiastical Academy of St. Petersburg consists of five departments:

  • Theological Academy: a theological college, the candidates for the priesthood and religious teachers and qualified theologians educates; the Academy can only be visited by already graduated graduates of a seminar; there exists a two-year and a three-year study program.
  • Theological Seminary: is the training of priesthood candidates in a five-year study.
  • Kantor school: in a four -year course cantors for church choirs are formed.
  • Icon painting school: a four-year degree program.
  • Faculty of Foreign Students: can study Orthodox and non- Orthodox students from abroad to study in special courses or after the curriculum of the seminary and the academy.

There also exist a large library and a museum of ecclesiastical archeology.

Educational mission

The statutes of the Theological Academy was on 29 April 1992 and on 28 October 1997, approved by the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, Alexy II. By the state received the Academy on 19 June 2003 by the Ministry of Education and the Higher Education Approval No. 0871, with her ​​was granted the right to carry out educational work in the field of religious education.

According to these documents, the Academy its activity defined as follows: Ensuring higher education a self-contained way for Orthodox Christians with the goal of preparing for the priesthood, for teaching at theological schools, for the church's work in the Synod, in the dioceses and the monasteries of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Ecclesiastic institution

The Ecclesiastical Academy is subordinate to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia and works particularly closely with the Education Committee of patriarchy.

History

The Ecclesiastical Academy sees itself as a successor of the Petrograd Academy, which was founded in 1918 closed and reopened in 1946. This goes back to the Slavic - Greek - Latin School, founded in 1725 at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery in 1778 and remodeled in the main seminar and renamed in 1797 in Alexander Nevski Academy. In 1908, these divided into three departments: the theological academy ( university), the Theological Seminary (College ) and the theological school ( high school). During the whole period of its existence it was educate the goal of the Academy qualified clerics as well as to improve the training always. For this effort to stand out, in 1821 founded the journal " Theological Writings". 1860 was added in " The Wanderer " and 1875 the weekly " Kirchenbote ".

Line

Is headed Theological Academy in October 2008 by Bishop Amwrossi ( Vitaly Anatoljevich Yermakov ).

Major graduates

  • Tikhon (1865-1925), Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia
  • Sergius II ( Ivan Nikolayevich Stragorodski, 1867-1944 ), Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia
  • Justin Popović (1894-1979), Orthodox theologian
  • Alexius II (1929-2008), Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia
  • Kirill I (* 1946), as the successor of Alexius II Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia
  • Theophanes Galinsky (born 1954 ), Archbishop of Berlin and all of Germany
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