On February 14th and 15th the bishop of Zvenigorod Pitirim, Rector of the Moscow Theological Academy, performed festive services at the academic church of the Intercession of the Theotokos. During the Divine Liturgy he ordained a Master student into a deacon.

The Printing House of the Moscow Theological Academy released the 2020 calendar which consists of two parts. There is a monthly list with an indication of church feasts which accompanied by history of an academic church of the Intercession of the Theotokos established 150 years ago.

A research center of bioethics and high technologies at the Moscow Theological Academy has recently been established by order of the bishop of Zvenigorod Pitirim, Rector of the MThA.

On February 6 th an MThA first-year Bachelor student Pavel Denisik organized a public campaign against artificial abortion. He told the passers-by in which period of pregnancy baby’s heart starts beating by using some realistic human-like models.

On January 29 th participants of the 27 th International Educational Christmas Readings visited the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN) where they took part in the 7 th Science and practical conference “Spiritual and moral culture in high school. Battle for Victory 75 years after”.

On January 28 th 2020 a conference “Go and teach: Orthodox Missionary work in Russian history” took place in a VDNH’s historical park “Russia is my history”. The conference was hold as a part of the 28 th International Educational Christmas Readings that were dedicated to the 150 th anniversary of establishment of the Orthodox Missionary organization whose statute was approved by Alexander II in November 1869.

The publishing house of the Moscow Theological Academy has released a new book “The one voice plain singing: a manual for practicing the eight church modes”. Tatiana Panteleeva, who is an author and a compiler, works as a church singing senior teacher of a church-practical department and a chorister’s faculty of the Moscow Theological Academy.

On January 20 th Julia Matveeva, PhD in study of art, gave her first lecture on “Heaven and fabrics: iconography, liturgical practice, historical development” which took place in the MThA library.

The Moscow Theological Academy celebrated the Epiphany in an academic church after the Intercession of the Theotokos. An evening service was performed be the bishop of Zvenigorod Pitirim.

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.