News
01.09.2026
Ahead of the 2026–2027 academic year, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus’ congratulated the rectors, teachers, and students of the Russian Orthodox Church’s theological schools.
31.08.2026
An expanded meeting of the Academy’s Academic Council took place on August 31, 2026.
29.08.2026
On August 27 and 28, 2026, the feast of the Dormition of the Most Holy Mother of God, festal services were held at the Moscow Theological Academy. Archimandrite Hilarion (Forkavets), the Academy’s spiritual father, presided at the All-Night Vigil, and Archimandrite Venedikt (Knyazev) at the Divine Liturgy.
28.08.2026
From June 19 to July 16, 2026, MThA master’s students in Biblical Studies undertook archaeological fieldwork with the Phanagoria expedition near the village of Sennoy in Krasnodar Krai.
27.08.2026
On August 26, 2026, Bishop Kirill presented Grigory Leps with a certificate of gratitude for donating a unique nineteenth-century icon of St. Sergius of Radonezh to the MThA Museum of Christian Art.
24.08.2026
On August 23, 2026, Patriarch Kirill celebrated the great consecration of the Church of St. Alexander Nevsky in Knyazhye Ozero, Moscow Region, and the Divine Liturgy.
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.









