A meeting of the Academic Doctoral Dissertation Council

On September 23, 2022, the Bishop of Istra Seraphim chaired a regular meeting of the Joint Doctoral Dissertation Council of the Moscow Theological Academy, the St. Petersburg Theological Academy, the Minsk Theological Academy and the Sretenskaya Theological Academy.

The meeting took place in a blended format. The participants, who were not able to attend it in person, joint the session online.

Expert commissions considered dissertations of A.V. Danilov "The Development of Christian Anthropology in Greek and Latin Patristics of the II-V Centuries" and A.V. Slesareva "Church life of the Belarusian emigration in 1944‒1991: problems of organization, jurisdictional contradictions and schisms". Both works were accepted for defense, official opponents and leading organizations were appointed.

Priest Vyacheslav Savintsev assigned the topic of his doctoral dissertation "The Ryazan Spiritual Consistory in the middle of the XVIII - early XX centuries: activity and development." The Bishop of Istra Seraphim, Chairman of the Academic Council, was approved as a scientific consultant.   

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