News
25.06.2026
On June 25, 2026, an expanded meeting of the Academy's Academic Council was held in the Elizabethan Hall.
25.06.2026
On June 24, 2026, the Great Hall of the Moscow Theological Academy hosted the diploma defenses of graduates of the second level of study at the Icon Painting Faculty.
22.06.2026
On June 22, 2026, the famous Russian musician Grigory Leps donated an icon of St. Sergius of Radonezh, painted in the 19th century in the workshop of the artist-iconographer Ivan Malyshev, to the MThA Museum of Christian Art.
20.06.2026
On June 17, 2026, a meeting of the Council of the "Kinovia" Cultural and Educational Center of the Lavra was held in the Elizabethan Hall.
17.06.2026
On June 4 and 5, 2026, alumni of the Moscow Theological Academy's class of 1996 gathered at the monastery of St. Sergius and their alma mater to mark the 30th anniversary of their graduation by sharing the joy of meeting in common prayer.
16.06.2026
On the official website of the Educational Committee of the Russian Orthodox Church, a ranking of theological educational institutions has been posted. The Moscow and Saint Petersburg Theological Academies shared the first place in the ranking.
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.









