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.

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.