On January 15 th Chad Hatfield, President of St. Vladimir seminary in New York and a representative of the Orthodox church in America, visited the Moscow Theological Academy.

In the evening on the 11 th of January students of the Precentor’s School of the Moscow Theological Academy celebrated newborn Crist in a St. Trinity church of the St. Trinity-Sergiu’s Laura.

On Christmas bishop Pitirim together with ordained teachers and students hold the festive divine service in an academic church of the Intercession of the Theotokos.

At night on January 1 st the bishop of Zvenigorod Pitirim, Rector of the Moscow Theological Academy, together with ordained teachers and students hold the first divine service of a New Year at the academic church of the Intercession of the Theotokos.

On December 31 st , the bishop of Zvenigorod Pitirim, Rector of the Moscow Theological Academy, hold a public prayer at the academy church of the Intercession of the Theotokos.

On December 17 th the metropolitan of Volokolamsk Ilarion, Head of the Office of External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, gave a lecture in the main hall of the Moscow Theological Academy on “Inter-Orthodox relations in a modern world”.

On December 12th the regular meeting of Dissertation Council #2 took place in the Moscow Theological Academy. The Council includes the Church History department, Church-practical department, Philology (Slavic languages) and the department of History and Theory of Church Art.

On December 13 th a public meeting was hold at the Theological department where they gave a report on academic work in 2019.

On December 30th 2012, with the blessing of Illarion (Kapral), the metropolitan of East America and New York and the head-hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Overseas, the first Russian Orthodox parish was established in Sargodha, Pakistan.

On December 9 th Department of History and Theory of Church Art hold a public meeting in the Moscow Theological Academy. It was chaired by Kvlividze N. V., Head of department. Professors, postgraduates, students as well as other guests interested in art and life of the department attended the meeting. Also a director of the Moscow Theological Academy museum was invited to the session.

On December 5 th a concert “Music and soul” took place in the Elizabethan’s hall of the Moscow Theological Academy. It was hold by the initiative of a third year student Gleb Shumko and his wife Maria Shumko, student of the Crimean Federal university, with the blessing of an administration of the Moscow Theological Academy.

On November 5 students of the Moscow Theological Academy started a series of meetings aimed for elderly people in Sergiev Posad. The first lesson of “Internet for beginners” programme took place in the Municipal Labor and Social Protection Department.