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  Saint Philaret’s Institute Celebrates Its Saint’s Day and 2024 Commencement

  The Institute celebrates 36 years of service and has 491 students this year

  03 December 2024
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  A Conference on “Memory and Confessions” is held at European University

  First Vice-Rector of SFI Dmitrij Gasak presents examples of church commemorative initiatives, summarizing the experience of the Transfiguration Brotherhood

  25 November 2024
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  Our Friend Ernst Christoph Suttner Has Passed Away

  The well-known scholar and Doctor of Theology worked selflessly to bring the western and eastern Christian Churches together

  22 October 2024
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  Teachers at SFI Discuss Questions of Eschatological Ethics in the Works of Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Roundtable participants considered the religious-philosophical ideas of Dante Alighieri and Vladimir Solovyov, as reflected in the Swiss theologian’s thought

  10 October 2024
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  Is Mission the Main Ministry of Lay People?

  Priests of the Russian Orthodox Church discuss SFI Founder Fr. Georgij Kochetkov’s course of lectures on Orthodox Missiology

  03 October 2024
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  “We Need to Dig Deep Into the Mystery of Man — Research Alone Won’t Do the Trick”

  An interview with Fr Georgij Kochetkov on a new Christian anthropology — upon the 35th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood

  25 September 2024
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  Anna Dmitrenko Presents a History of the Interactions Between Metropolitan Arsenij (Stadnitskij) and Bishop Makarij (Opotskij) at a Symposium in Tashkent

  The 11th annual symposium on the “Fate Christianity in Central Asia: Past and Present” has just drawn to a close

  09 September 2024
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  St. Philaret’s Institute begins its 37th academic year

  The year opened with a lecture by Russian Academy of Sciences scholar Irina Smirnova, who spoke on the diplomatic activity of Metropolitan Philaret (Drozdov) of Moscow

  03 September 2024
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  Metropolitan Serafim of Penza and Nizhny Lomov Discusses the Service of Laypeople With SFI Teachers and Students

  Our SFI field expedition continues, as teachers and students acquaint themselves with the ecclesial life of the Diocese of Penza

  02 September 2024
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  Well-known Orthodox theologian Christos Yannaras has passed away

  SFI has published Yannaras’s book entitled “Truth and the Unity of the Church”

  25 August 2024
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  Students and Teachers Celebrate Transfiguration at the Church of Christ the Saviour

  In back — correspondence students taking exams, in front — admission exams

  19 August 2024
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  Saint Philaret’s Institute and the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences Sign a Partnership Agreement

  This agreement seals the universities’ friendship over many years

  15 July 2024
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  SFI Graduation Celebrations

  Photos and prayers of thanksgiving, distribution of diplomas, and openair celebrations

  03 July 2024
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  Saint Philaret’s Institute Receives Accreditation for Its Master’s Degree Programme in History

  The programme focuses on in-depth study of key historical issues in the history of the 20th century Russian Orthodox Church

  25 June 2024
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  SFI Theology Faculty Master’s Degree Students Defend Their Final Theses

  Topics in focus were the ministry of laypeople in the 20th century theology, the history of the Serbian rite of burial, and liturgical service amongst Old Believers in the Ural region

  21 June 2024
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  “We Can See Iconoclasm in the Form of Poorly Rendered Icons and Misinformed Veneration”

  SFI Rector Aleksandr Kopirovskij presents a seminar on problems in the rendering of icons at the Andrej Rublev Museum of Ancient Russian Art

  05 June 2024
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  People Are Amazed When They Learn That Muslim Christology Exists

  SFI Professor Aleksej Zhuravskij on Christian-Muslim Relations in Academic Audiences

  03 June 2024
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  Conference in Kostroma on “Communitarian and Sobornal Principles in Societal and Church Organizations in Russia”

  The conference opened with the signing of an agreement between the Theological Seminary in Kostroma and Saint Philaret’s Institute

  28 May 2024
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  “Mission is Walking Across a Minefield”

  Fr Georgy Kochetkov presents his course for missionaries at a book launch in St Petersburg

  22 May 2024
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  “Man Is No Mere Object, No Mere Resource: Man Has a Spirit”

  SFI Academic Secretary Alina Patrakova’s presentation at a recent Bioethics roundtable

  17 May 2024
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  New SFI Rector — Aleksandr Mikhailovich Kopirovskij

  Kopirovskij has been appointed as Rector by the Institute’s Founding Organization, after the recent death of former Rector, Aleksej Borisovich Mazurov

  16 April 2024
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  Freedom and Law in the Christian Tradition — the Topic of the “Church and Time” Conference at the Saints Cyril and Methodius Institute for Postgraduate Studies

  First Vice Rector of SFI Dmitry Gasak considers the inter-relationship between freedom and authority in early slavophile thought about church unity

  10 April 2024
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  The Rector of St. Philaret’s Institute, Aleksey Mazurov, has passed away in the Lord

  Funeral Services will take place on 11 April at St. Philaret’s Chapel

  09 April 2024
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  Elizaveta Oleskina: “May You Be Many in Number!”

  The latest in a series: A new crop of SFI social coordinators graduates 

  11 March 2024

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