MThA teachers take part at the XI All-Russian Conference “Church. Theology. History"

February 8, 2023 was the first day of the XI All-Russian Scientific and Theological Conference “Church. Theology. History".

Every year it is attended by teachers, graduate and undergraduate students of theological and secular educational institutions, specialists in the field of Church History and theological disciplines.

The conference gathered representatives of the leading theological schools and scientific communities from all over Russia.

The Metropolitan of Yekaterinburg and Verkhotur’e Evgeny chaired a plenary session.

Natalia Yuryevna Sukhova, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Doctor of Church History, Professor, Professor at the History Department of the Russian Orthodox Church and Scientific Director of the Center for the History of Theology and Theological Education at St. Tikhon Orthodox Humanitarian University (Moscow), gave a report on “Hagiology, hagiography, canonization: the realities of Russian theological school in the second half of the 19th - early 20th centuries.”

Priest Alexander Mazyrin, Doctor of Church History, PhD in Historical Sciences, Professor, Deputy Head of the Research Department of the Contemporary History of the Russian Orthodox Church, Professor at the History Department of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Orthodox St. Tokhon’s Humanitarian University, gave a report on “Renovationist false council of 1923 through the eyes of atheists, schismatics and Orthodox contemporaries”.

Priest Dimitry Baritsky, PhD in Theology, Associate Professor at the Biblical Studies Department of the Moscow Theological Academy, gave a report on "Literary Analysis in the Context of Biblical Studies".

Priest Stefan Domuschi, PhD in Philosophical Sciences, PhD in Theology, Associate Professor at the Theology Department of the Moscow Theological Academy, Dean of the Missionary Faculty of the Russian Orthodox University, presented a report on “Measure as a Moral and Ascetic Category”.

As part of the first day of the conference, the the UrFU site hosted the section "Traditional book culture and the history of the Old Believers", which was attended by Metropolitan Eugene.

Yekaterinburg Diocese/MThA Press Office