News
30.10.2025
The twentieth issue of the journal "Tserkovny Istorik" (Church Historian) has been released by the Academy, the second issue for 2025. The editor-in-chief of this scholarly journal is Professor Alexey Konstantinovich Svetozarsky, Head of the Department of Church History.
03.10.2025
On October 2, 2025, the MThA Department of Church History, in collaboration with the Student Society for the Study of Church History in the Soviet Union, held a round table titled “Reflection of the Great Patriotic War in the Destinies of Church People”, dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory.
02.10.2025
On October 1, 2025, a meeting of the "Orthodox Pauline Studies" student scientific-theological society was held. The keynote lecture, titled "The Iconography of Apostle Paul," was delivered by B.B. Goncharuk, an assistant at the Department of History and Theory of Church Art at the Moscow Theological Academy (MThA).
28.09.2025
On September 27, 2025, the Moscow Theological Academy (MThA) community celebrated the Great Feast of the Elevation of the Precious and Life-giving Cross of the Lord. Archimandrite Platon (Igumnov) presided over the All-Night Vigil and the Divine Liturgy.
23.09.2025
On September 21, 2025, the Moscow Theological Academy (MThA) community gathered at the Intercession Church for festive services marking the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos. Metropolitan Eugene of Tallinn and All Estonia presided over the All-Night Vigil and the Divine Liturgy.
15.09.2025
On September 14, with the blessing of Bishop Kirill of Sergiev Posad and Dmitrov, Rector of the Moscow Theological Academy (MThA), first-year students from the Bachelor's, Master's, Church Singing Art, and Icon Painting departments went on a pilgrimage to the capital's most revered holy sites and landmarks.
Publications
His Holiness Patriarch of Serbia Porfirije
Address by His Holiness Patriarch of Serbia Porfirije «On True Theology»
We present to your attention the address delivered by His Holiness Patriarch of Serbia, Porfirije, at the solemn ceremony of awarding His Holiness with an honorary doctorate from the Moscow Theological Academy. The address is preceded by words addressed to His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, the rector of MThA, Bishop Kirill of Sergiev Posad and Dmitrovsk, archpastors and pastors, professors, teachers, postgraduate students, students, and staff of the theological school.
We gave teachers a certain level of freedom in choosing the form of lessons.
Due to the coronavirus prevention acts, the Moscow Theological Academy switched to distance learning. Priest Pavel Lizgunov, Vice-Rector for Academic work, commented on how the theological education is implemented in a new form.
Academic church of the Intercession of Theotokos celebrates its 150th anniversary
“Only God knows how many good and holy intentions have ripened here in prayer to serve Him and the Church”. An academic church in honour of the Intercession of Theotokos is 150 years old.









