On the base Postgraduate branch of the Moscow Theological Academy under the Department for External Church Relations, which operated from the beginning of the 1960s as a structural unit of the Moscow Theological Academy and was located on the premises of the Department for External Church Relations in Moscow. The decision to create a graduate school was made at the proposal of Patriarch Kirill at a meeting of the Holy Synod on March 31, 2009 (magazine No. 20). The charter of the graduate school was approved at a meeting of the Holy Synod in the Kiev Pechersk Lavra on July 27, 2009.
Goals
Church-wide postgraduate and doctoral studies prepare specialists in the field of inter-Orthodox, inter-Christian and church-social relations. The training lasts from two or more years and ends with the writing of a master's/candidate's/doctoral dissertation.
Graduates of postgraduate and doctoral studies have the opportunity to apply the acquired knowledge and experience in various spheres of church and public life, in synodal and educational institutions of the Russian Orthodox Church, and secular institutions that maintain relations with the Russian Orthodox Church.
Over time, as Patriarch Kirill stated, graduate school should be included in the Bologna process and brought into line with the state educational system, receiving state accreditation. Graduate school teachers consider it necessary in the near future to include theology in the list of specialties of the Higher Attestation Commission.
Departments
There are nine departments in the Graduate and Doctoral Studies:
- Theology,
- External church relations,
- Biblical studies,
- Stories,
- Church Arts,
- Governance and Canon Law,
- Church and practical sciences,
- Philosophy,
- Ancient and new languages.
In the two departments of “Philosophy” and “Ancient and Modern Languages”, it is only possible to undergo training, but these departments do not produce graduate students and doctoral students.
The Department of External Church Relations inherited the tasks and traditions of the Postgraduate Branch of the Moscow Theological Academy under the Department of External Church Relations, created back in the 1960s. Particular importance is attached to the departments of “Theology”, “History” and “Management”. In these four departments, from the very beginning, the opportunity to improve qualifications without defending a dissertation was open.
In April 2010, the graduate school signed an agreement with the Moscow State Linguistic University to ensure that graduate students are taught foreign languages, including rare ones.
Admission to graduate school
When recruiting students, priority is given to graduates of Theological Academies, secular universities, and foreign Universities.
Candidates of Science are accepted for the doctoral program.
Location of the Graduate School
The main administrative premises of the All-Church graduate and doctoral studies are located in a three-story building on the territory of the Patriarchal Chernigovsky metochion, located in Chernigovsky Lane in Moscow. Previously, during the years of the existence of the MDA Postgraduate Branch at DECR, training sessions were held in the DECR building.
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History of the Branch of the MDA Postgraduate School at DECR
Heads of the Branch of the MDA Postgraduate School at the DECR (1963-2009):
Graduates of the Branch of the MDA Postgraduate School at DECR:
History of Church postgraduate and doctoral studies
As of March 2011, 119 people are studying in the All-Church Postgraduate School, of whom 77 are clergy of the Russian Orthodox Church, one student is a cleric of the Russian Orthodox Old Believer Church and one student is a student of the Catholic faith.
On May 30, 2016, a joint dissertation council D 999.073.04 in theology was created at the All-Church Postgraduate and Doctoral Studies named after Saints Cyril and Methodius, Orthodox St. Tikhon's Humanitarian University, Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov and the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration at President of the Russian Federation.
Rectors of the All-Church Postgraduate School (since 2009)
- - present Hilarion (Alfeev), metropolitan.
On December 16, 2014, at the Patriarchal residence of the Danilov Stavropegic Monastery, a regular meeting of the Supervisory Council of the All-Church Postgraduate and Doctoral Studies named after Saints Cyril and Methodius was held. In his opening remarks, the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church said:
It will soon be six years since the moment on March 31, 2009, at the first meeting of the Holy Synod after my election to the Patriarchal Throne, a great and important matter was initiated - the creation of the Church-wide graduate and doctoral studies. This initiative was due to the urgent need for education and advanced training of the personnel reserve of our Church.
It was quite obvious to me and my fellow archpastors at that time that improving the qualifications of the highest and middle personnel of the Church, as well as cultivating a new generation of responsible ministers, is a task of paramount importance, without which we cannot carry out any planning, because everything depends on of people. The Russian Church has a catastrophic shortage of qualified theological personnel who would be at the level of modern theological thought. And over the past years, much has been done to ensure that such personnel appear.
At the same time, something has been done to stimulate church-wide development, including strengthening the religiosity of our people and the development of all aspects of church life, primarily in our Russian province. That is why the creation of new dioceses was initiated. This initiative itself raised the question of personnel training, because the bishop is responsible for the Church, for the people entrusted to him, he represents the Church in the face of the outside world, educates and is responsible for the education of candidates for the clergy and for the clergy itself. After all, they implement various kinds of programs, including educational and pedagogical ones, and a lot depends on the level of education, including the level of education of the bishop.
At present, we testify that the Church is indeed an active participant in public life, but it also still has a lot to do - first of all, in order to actualize the Gospel message for our contemporaries. The implementation of this task faces great difficulties and problems, because the general information flow that falls on every person today contributes not to the actualization, but to the archaization of the Gospel message. Through the prism of this modern information flow, people tend to view ancient Christian sources, including the Gospel, as relating primarily to the past and having little impact on the life of modern man.
Not only now, but at all times, the actualization of the Gospel is the main task of the Church. However, today we perhaps face the greatest difficulties along this path - cultural, educational and other.
In order to further plow the field of religious life in our country, new dioceses were created. In 2009, there were 200 bishops in the Russian Orthodox Church - participants in the Council of Bishops; now there are 329 of them. Thus, the number of bishops has increased two and a half times. But it would be wrong to assume that the number of high-ranking church workers simply increased.
Each bishop is responsible for the people entrusted to him in the diocese. In 2009, we had 159 dioceses, including 69 in the Russian Federation, that is, in terms of the number of bishops and dioceses it was inferior to all other parts of the Moscow Patriarchate in total. Today there are 282 dioceses, of which 179 are in Russia.
The bishops running the new dioceses are mostly young (although there are some middle-aged), energetic people who did not intend to make a brilliant church career, and for most of their lives did not think about being a bishop at all. Many of them worked for more than twenty years in various obediences in the outback: they were priests, abbots of monasteries, deans, and were engaged in educational activities; many were members of Public Chambers in the regions and had experience communicating with the authorities. That is, these are people who have gone through a very serious journey in life. When communicating with candidates for ordination to the rank of bishop, each time you ask yourself the same question: they have an education (mostly these are people with two higher educations - ecclesiastical and secular), but 15-20 years of work outside theological schools and the system in general advanced training, of course, has an impact - they gain some experience, but in some areas they do not acquire either experience or knowledge.
I am talking about all this precisely in connection with the fact that the Graduate School today is entrusted with a very important responsibility: to work in terms of improving the qualifications of bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church. This educational program is a real help both for the newly ordained bishops themselves and for their dioceses.
This year we have conducted a refresher course for the fourth time, which lasts more than two weeks. During the courses, newly appointed bishops have, firstly, the opportunity to communicate with the Patriarch, ask him questions, but, in addition, to work systematically, raising their level: students of the courses meet with members of the Synod, heads of synodal institutions, adopt living experience of governance, get acquainted with the main trends in church-state, inter-Orthodox and interreligious relations; they meet with government officials, attend thematic courses by leading Russian experts in the fields of sociology, history, jurisprudence, management and finance.
A few weeks ago I met with students of the IV bishops’ course. All of them note the high level of the program, as well as the practical importance of the knowledge gained for solving everyday diocesan problems. They approached us with a request to further expand the topics of the courses, pointing out those areas of their activity in which they would like to gain more knowledge, and also came up with a very interesting initiative: to create similar courses for their closest assistants: diocesan secretaries, office managers, heads various diocesan departments. I would ask Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk to create conditions for the implementation of this initiative.
I am convinced that advanced training courses for newly appointed bishops are only the first, but very important stage in the creation of an extensive program of continuous professional development in the Russian Orthodox Church. It could be called the Patriarchal Program, given the fact that for the Patriarch, increasing the level of education and acquiring new skills by representatives of the episcopate is a matter of great importance.
Such courses should be conducted not only for hierarchs, and I hope that the entire managerial core of the Russian Orthodox Church will have the opportunity in one way or another to improve their qualifications on the basis of the Graduate School.
There are no analogues of such an educational program in any other Local Orthodox Church, or in the non-Orthodox world. Bishop Hilarion will confirm that the courses we conduct arouse very great interest among representatives of the Local Orthodox Churches and beyond. I am confident that the cooperation in this area, enshrined in the agreement between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, can also bring abundant and good fruits.
I would also like to say that, given the ever-increasing potential of the All-Church Postgraduate and Doctoral Studies, I consider it possible to entrust its rector, Metropolitan Hilarion, with a number of important general educational church and educational projects. Thus, on the basis of OCAD there operates the All-Church Dissertation Council for the defense of dissertations for the degree of Doctor of Theology and Church History. It includes the flower of Russian secular and ecclesiastical science. Thanks to the activities of the All-Church Dissertation Council, the entire process of writing and defending dissertations is now built in full accordance with the requirements of the Higher Attestation Commission of the Russian Federation.
Seven doctoral dissertations have already been defended in the council, one of the doctors is bishop Savva of the Resurrection, deputy administrator of the affairs of the Moscow Patriarchate. The number is still small, but currently 23 graduate students are preparing to defend their doctoral dissertations. I really hope that these dissertations will make a contribution to the development of theological science.
The Rector of the Graduate School also heads the Coordination Center for the Development of Theological Science in the Russian Orthodox Church, whose task is to determine the main directions of such development. In our country, theological research is carried out by theological academies; there are also secular institutions, including departments at secular higher educational institutions, which deal with theological topics. There is a need to coordinate all this activity in order not to scatter personnel and to consolidate attention on those theological problems, the solution of which is truly urgent for our Church today.
The rector of OCAD is also entrusted with attracting a large number of scientists to write fundamentally new textbooks for undergraduate studies of the Russian Orthodox Church. The body of new textbooks should become for thousands of future church workers and pastors a source of knowledge about the Church, its place in the Fatherland and in the world. These textbooks should be accessible, written at a modern level for anyone who wants to become familiar with the relevant disciplines.
I would like to note that work on this project, which requires a complex structural organization, becomes a platform for the collective work of hundreds of authors, which requires non-standard solutions, including managerial ones, as well as methodological and pedagogical ones.
As I already said, at nine departments of the Church postgraduate and doctoral studies, 23 doctoral dissertations are currently being written and 101 graduate students are working.
In recent years, the Graduate School has become a serious platform for meetings of church and secular scientists, hierarchs and theologians from all over the world. The International Scientific and Practical Conference is held annually. For example, a conference dedicated to the remarkable late Byzantine Christian author and Father of the Church, St. Simeon the New Theologian, has just ended.
The Student Exchange Commission, created in 2012 on my initiative, operates on the basis of the Graduate School. I dealt with this topic when I was the chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, and at that time this work encountered much greater difficulties, because the chairman of the DECR then had neither the opportunity nor the right to coordinate all this activity. Sometimes we didn’t even know who was studying abroad and why, or what the result of this study would be. Many, after spending several years abroad, simply disappeared: some went into business, others did something else. That is, we sent capable people for training, but the output was some false, noisy signals. Therefore, I began to associate education at the Graduate School with bringing order to this very important area of our activity.
Today the commission supervises the education of 70 students of the Russian Orthodox Church in foreign universities, and approximately the same number of students from abroad study with us. Thus, it is possible to personally work with each student, understand what he is striving for, what his goals are, and also select candidates for training. We are sharply reducing undergraduate study abroad. My position is that you need to go somewhere to study only if you have received a basic education in your homeland, and then you can specialize in another educational institution, especially since today this can be easily combined within Bologna system. We have practically stopped sending students abroad for undergraduate programs, with the exception of our theological seminary in Paris.
Student exchange also has important consequences for external church activities. A number of our graduates occupy a prominent place in the hierarchy of other Local Orthodox Churches, while they maintain good relations with their alma mater and with the Russian Church, just as our students who study abroad establish and subsequently maintain good relations with local professors, hierarchs and clergy. All this supports, among other things, the system of external church activity of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Within the framework of the Graduate School, there is also a program called “External Church Relations” - the only specialized program of its kind in world Orthodoxy. It is especially dear to me, because the actual initiator of its creation was my spiritual father - the ever-memorable Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod Nikodim (Rotov). At the turn of the 60s and 70s, when the Church lived under severe pressure and control from the state, Bishop Nikodim laid the foundations of this educational cycle, selecting the best graduates of the Moscow and Leningrad academies and creating on the basis of the DECR, which he at that time headed, branch of the Graduate School of the Moscow Theological Academy. The main task of the branch was to train responsible workers in the field of church-public relations. I, too, went through this program at one time, as did Bishop Hilarion and many other hierarchs.
The Church-wide postgraduate and doctoral program “External Church Relations” has been newly developed in accordance with the requirements of the current moment and is conceived as the preparation of the faithful of the Church, open to dialogue as enlightened and educated participants in inter-Church relations.
So, much has already been done, but much more remains to be done. For an educational institution, a period of five to six years is too short a period to require great results. Nevertheless, such results are already evident. I would like to note with joy that the seed sown in 2009 did not die out, it did not fall on rocky soil, or among thorns, or along the road, but it bore fruit, and over these five years - a worthy fruit. I have no intention of exaggerating the results, but I shouldn’t belittle them either. Therefore, everything must be done to ensure that the Graduate School can work with even greater efficiency.
Church-wide postgraduate and doctoral studies are a kind of Patriarchal Academy, under the direct control of the Primate of the Church. It is undoubtedly called upon to consolidate the intellectual resources of the Russian Orthodox Church, generate new social ideas, carry out continuous education of responsible employees of the Church, serve as a platform for dialogue between church and secular science, as well as for the training of enlightened personnel working in the sphere of church-state, church-public and international relations. Achieving all these goals is an important and urgent task.
We are already preparing to worthily spend the year of the 1000th anniversary of the repose of the holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Vladimir, and the Graduate School is called upon to become an important center of events and celebrations dedicated to the great enlightener and Baptist of Rus'. A major scientific and historical conference dedicated to assessing the legacy of Saint Prince Vladimir is planned for September 2015. The best ecclesiastical and secular scientists from our country and abroad will meet face to face on the site of the Graduate School to think together about what seems especially important today - about the role of the Church in the history of our Fatherland, about the significance of Orthodoxy for our past, present and future, about the role of the Russian Orthodox Church in relations between traditionally Orthodox peoples, in the development of relations between Christians both on the European continent and throughout the world.
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Rules for admission to the Church-wide graduate and doctoral studies named after St. Equal-to-the-Apostles Cyril and Methodius in 2009
1. Admission is carried out according to the following programs: 1) candidate (postgraduate studies), 2) doctoral (doctoral studies) and 3) advanced training and retraining. Postgraduate and doctoral studies take place in full-time and part-time forms; in advanced training and retraining programs - only full-time.
2. Persons of the Orthodox faith who are citizens of the Russian Federation or other countries (CIS countries, non-CIS countries), or who do not have citizenship, but have the necessary permission to stay on the territory of the Russian Federation, are accepted into the All-Church graduate and doctoral studies.
In special cases, representatives of other Christian denominations may be admitted to graduate school.
3. Persons no older than 35 years of age are admitted to full-time postgraduate study (with a break from their main place of service during the first, and, if necessary, the second and third years of study), and persons no older than 45 years to part-time study. Applicants to the candidate program must have a higher professional education (diploma or master's degree) or a higher religious education.
Doctoral studies accept persons no older than 45 years. Applicants must have either a candidate of theology degree or an academic degree provided for by the state certification system of scientific and scientific-pedagogical workers.
4. Persons serving in church-wide and diocesan institutions, parishes, educational, scientific and other institutions of the Russian Orthodox Church who have a higher professional secular or religious education are accepted for the advanced training and retraining program.
5. The following have the right to be referred to Church-wide postgraduate and doctoral studies:
Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus';
Heads of synodal institutions and commissions;
Diocesan bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church;
Rectors of theological academies, Orthodox institutes and universities included in the educational system of the Russian Orthodox Church.
6. An application for admission indicating the level of study (postgraduate studies, doctoral studies, advanced training), form of study (full-time or part-time) and specialty (see the list of specialties, Appendix No. 1 to these Rules) is submitted to the Rector. The following documents must be attached to it:
Copies of diplomas and certificates of previously obtained education and qualifications (the originals must be presented when submitting documents);
Copy of passport (the original must be presented when submitting documents);
A certified copy of the appointment letter (for applicants to the priesthood);
A completed application form of the established form (see Appendix No. 2, to be completed on the day of submission of documents);
Autobiography;
A list of scientific works, and for doctoral applicants also - a sample plan for a doctoral dissertation;
2 photos 3 x 4;
Medical certificate.
During the period of accepting applications, documents can be brought by the applicant personally or sent by registered mail to the address: 115191, Moscow, Danilovsky Val, 22, Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, Admissions Committee of the All-Church Postgraduate and Doctoral Studies. Copies of diplomas, passports, and certificates of appointment are certified by the personnel department at the place of service or by a notary. The remaining documents must be submitted in the original, and a personal statement, questionnaire, autobiography, and list of works must be signed by the applicant. If these rules are not followed and the set of documents is incomplete, the admissions committee has the right not to consider the application.
7. Applicants to the candidate program take competitive exams in:
Theology;
Foreign language;
Special discipline, in accordance with the specialty of the department.
Each applicant is interviewed.
8. To take exams for the candidate’s program, by order of the Rector, an admissions committee is created from the teaching staff of the graduate school. The chairman of the admissions committee is the Rector. During the entrance examinations, the commission evaluates the knowledge of applicants and assigns grades: “excellent”, “good”, “satisfactory”, “unsatisfactory”. Persons who receive an “unsatisfactory” score or fail to appear for the exam at the scheduled time without good reason are not allowed to take subsequent exams during the same session. Persons who do not appear for the exam for a valid reason are admitted to it no later than the end of the session with the special permission of the Rector.
Retaking entrance exams is not allowed. Passed entrance exams to graduate school are valid for 13 months.
Applicants to doctoral studies and advanced training and retraining programs undergo an interview. The decision on admission is made by the Rector, taking into account the recommendations of the commission that conducted the interview.
If the number of applicants who received positive scores exceeds the number of places approved by the Rector, the tuition for which is paid from the funds of the educational institution, then a competition is held. When holding a competition, the following are taken into account: the number of points scored in the entrance examinations, the presence of a university diploma with honors and the average score of the diploma, the presence of publications and developments for a future dissertation.
After completion of the entrance examinations, those who did not pass the competition may be accepted on a compensatory basis with payment of tuition from the budget of the sending party or other funds raised by the sending party or the applicant.
An agreement on the provision of educational services is concluded with all applicants.
9. Applications and documents for the All-Church Postgraduate and Doctoral Studies are accepted in 2009 from August 15 to September 15 (documents sent by mail must be sent as early as possible, the deadline for sending documents by mail is September 10). Entrance exams take place from September 15 to 25. Enrollment in 2009 takes place from September 25 to 30. Accepted graduate students, doctoral students and students are considered enrolled from October 1. The duration of study should not exceed: in graduate school 3 years full-time and 4 years part-time, in doctoral studies - 3 years, in the advanced training and retraining program - 2 years.
10. Students studying at the expense of the All-Church postgraduate and doctoral studies may be paid a scholarship, the amount of which is determined by order of the Rector.
Appendix No. 1. List of specialties of the All-Church postgraduate and doctoral studies for which admission is carried out in 2009 for all programs:
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Speciality |
Department |
Degree awarded in case of defense of a dissertation in a candidate's and doctoral program |
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Theology |
Theology |
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External Church Relations |
External Church Relations |
Candidate of Theology/Doctor of Theology |
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Biblical studies |
Biblical studies |
Candidate of Theology/Doctor of Theology |
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Church history |
Church history |
Candidate of Theology/Doctor of Church History |
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Church art |
Ecclesiastical Arts and Archeology |
Candidate of Theology/Doctor of Theology |
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Church administration |
Governance and canon law |
Candidate of Theology/Doctor of Church Law |
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Practical Theology |
Church-practical sciences |
Candidate of Theology/Doctor of Theology |
Appendix No. 2.
QUESTIONNAIRE FOR APPLICANTS TO GENERAL CHURCH GRADUATE AND DOCTORAL STUDIES
1. Last name, first name, patronymic
2. Sanction (if any) and date of its adoption
3. Date and place of birth
4. Date of baptism
5. Information about education (indicating the number and date of issue of education documents)
average:
higher:
advanced training (if any):
6. Academic degree and title (if any)
7. Passport data (series, number, issue details, permanent residence address)
8. Proficiency in foreign languages and level of proficiency
9. Sphere of scientific interests and intended topic of the dissertation
10. Topic of qualifying work at the last place of study
11. Total number of publications (including in electronic media)
12. Information about place of work (service) for the last 10 years
13. Attitude to military service (served, did not serve, fit or not fit for military service, has a deferment)
14. Contact phone, e-mail
15. Date of completion, signature
The decision to create a Church-wide graduate school was made at the proposal of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus' at a meeting of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church on March 31, 2009 (magazine No. 20). Archbishop (now Metropolitan) of Volokolamsk Hilarion, chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, was appointed rector of the graduate school.
On May 7, 2009, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill approved the composition of the Working Group to develop the Regulations (Charter) of the Church Postgraduate School, its program and curriculum.
In connection with the tasks set for the new educational institution, including the training of highly qualified church scientific personnel - doctors of theology, the Working Group proposed to expand the name of the graduate school (“Church-wide graduate school and doctoral studies”), giving it the name of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Cyril and Methodius .
The Holy Synod, at a meeting on July 27, 2009, having approved the works of the Working Group on developing the Regulations (Charter) of the All-Church Postgraduate School, its program and curriculum, approved the Charter of the All-Church Postgraduate and Doctoral Studies named after Saints Cyril and Methodius Equal-to-the-Apostles (magazine No. 57).
Church-wide postgraduate and doctoral studies became the successor to the postgraduate branch of the Moscow Theological Academy, which had been operating under the Department for External Church Relations since 1963.
The All-Church Postgraduate School has created departments in key areas of church science. Each of the departments has its own specifics and is aimed at creating its own scientific school based on the traditions laid down by Eastern Christian (in particular, Russian) theology, domestic and foreign humanities. Currently, the following departments operate under the OCAD: biblical studies, theology, external church relations, history, social sciences, pedagogy and educational theory, church-practical sciences, philosophy.
Training is conducted in the following programs: master's, postgraduate, doctoral, advanced training.
As part of advanced training, the following programs have been developed:
Advanced training courses for newly appointed bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church;
Advanced training courses for assistants of diocesan departments and personal secretaries of bishops;
Advanced training courses for church archivists;
Advanced training courses for teachers of biblical studies;
Advanced training courses for teachers of apologetics;
Advanced training courses for heads of diocesan departments on interaction with the Cossacks.
In the near future, it is planned to increase the number of areas of advanced training courses on the basis of OTSAD.
Particular attention is paid to the study of foreign languages and mastery of the methodology of scientific and theological research.
There are ample opportunities for scientific supervision of the work of graduate students and doctoral students. The Church-wide graduate school invites domestic and foreign scientists, both ecclesiastical and secular, as supervisors and consultants for dissertations. The educational institution strives to create conditions so that scientific leadership is not an empty formality, but is effective. With its help, new generations of church scientists should be raised who have all the necessary skills for independent research work and the practical application of its results in their church ministry.
The All-Church Postgraduate School regularly organizes scientific conferences and seminars on the profile of the departments. Students have the opportunity to attend speeches by famous lecturers, church, government, and public figures of Russia and foreign countries.
Opportunities are being created for the defense of dissertations for the scientific degree of candidate and doctor of theology not only by men, but also by women. The girls and women entering graduate school are employees of synodal and diocesan institutions, church teachers, regents, art historians, icon painters, and church philologists.
Church-wide postgraduate and doctoral studies operate on the basis of a perpetual license AAA No. 001086, issued by the Federal Service for Supervision of Education and Science on March 21, 2011.
The educational institution is located in the very center of Moscow - in the complex of the Patriarchal Metochion of the Churches of the Holy Martyrs Michael and Theodore of Chernigov and the Beheading of John the Baptist near Bor in Chernigovsky Lane.
The vice-rector of the graduate school for academic work is Hieromonk John (Kopeikin), the secretary of the academic council is priest Dimitry Safonov, the head of the Educational and Methodological Department is Miguel Palacio.
With the support of the St. Grigory Theologian Graduate School was able to get its own building, located on the territory of the Chernigov courtyard in Zamoskvorechye, in the very center of Moscow.
On February 7, 2012, on the day of remembrance of St. Gregory the Theologian, Archbishop of Constantinople, with the blessing of Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, the St. Gregory the Theologian Charitable Foundation established five scholarships for citizens from foreign countries who come to study at the All-Church Postgraduate and Doctoral Studies named after Sts. Cyril and Methodius and other educational institutions of the Russian Orthodox Church.
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The second training courses for church archivists have completed
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The courses were conducted jointly with the Russian State University for the Humanities with financial support from the Gregory the Theologian Foundation. Participants listened to lectures on the history of the archives of the Russian Orthodox Church and Russia, met with the heads of archives and archival units, church and secular scientists, visited monasteries, the archive of the Government of the Russian Federation, the research department of manuscripts of the Russian State Library, the Church Scientific Center "Orthodox Encyclopedia"
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk paid a visit to Kazakhstan
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The main purpose of the working trip was to conduct on-site training courses for the episcopate of the Metropolitan District of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Central Asian Metropolitan District and Azerbaijan. The course is organized by the All-Church Postgraduate and Doctoral Studies named after Saints Cyril and Methodius
Short-term training courses for church archives staff were held at the All-Church Postgraduate School
The degree of Doctor of Theology was awarded to the head of the Department of Philosophy of the Church Postgraduate School V.N. Katasonov and the rector of the All Saints Parish of the Moscow Patriarchate in Lisbon, Hegumen Arseny (Sokolov)
The All-Church Postgraduate School, together with the Russian State University for the Humanities and the State Archive of the Russian Federation, will conduct short-term courses for church archivists
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Course participants will become familiar with the history of archival work in Russia, the history of the archives of the Russian Orthodox Church, the current state of the country's archival industry, and the practice of organizing archival records management. Practical classes will be held in the State Archives of the Russian Federation. Excursions to the capital’s largest archives will also be organized.
The Gregory the Theologian Foundation has established 5 scholarships for students from far abroad
The Academic Council reviewed the results of advanced training courses for newly elected bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church held at the All-Church Postgraduate School in December. The rector reported the high assessment of the courses by the participants themselves
The rector of the All-Church Postgraduate School presented certificates of advanced training to 17 students of the bishop's courses
Approved by the decision of His Holiness the Patriarch, the All-Church Council for the defense of dissertations for the degree of Doctor of Theology is joint for the All-Church Postgraduate and Doctoral Studies named after Saints Cyril and Methodius, the Orthodox St. Tikhon's Humanitarian University, the Moscow and St. Petersburg Orthodox Theological Academies
The Department of External Church Relations has begun training students admitted to the master's program
During his visit to Italy, the DECR chairman also took part in a symposium on Orthodox spirituality in the Bose Monastery and celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the Church of the Great Martyr Catherine in Rome
The rector of the All-Church Postgraduate School held a meeting of the working group on the restoration of the Chernigov metochion
Exams will be held from September 12 to 19. Persons who have successfully completed a postgraduate or doctoral study program and defended a qualifying work at the appropriate level are awarded the academic degree of candidate or doctor of theology of the Russian Orthodox Church
Metropolitan Hilarion summed up the results of the entrance exams for the master's program of the All-Church Postgraduate and Doctoral Studies
Archimandrite Kirill (Govorun), First Deputy Chairman of the Educational Committee of the Russian Orthodox Church, Vice-Rector of the All-Church Postgraduate and Doctoral Studies, spoke about the prospects for the development of domestic theological education in an interview with the Bogoslov.Ru portal.
Metropolitan Hilarion presented diplomas and certificates to graduates of the advanced training program
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This is the first issuance of diplomas from the All-Church Postgraduate and Doctoral Studies, an educational institution created by Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus'. The continuing education program was conceived as an important addition to spiritual and academic education. “Those who came to this program were able to study such disciplines, receive such skills, such information, which are not available in any other theological school of our Church,” noted Metropolitan Hilarion.
The Academic Council of the All-Church Postgraduate School summed up the results of the academic year
The curriculum is based on the third generation state standard in the field of study “theology”
A representative of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity gave a lecture at the Church Graduate School
The resource contains information about departments, employees, and various areas of activity of the educational institution. It is planned to regularly update the section with course programs and post the current class schedule. Thanks to the site, students will have the opportunity to communicate within the forum
Metropolitan Hilarion led the event day at the All-Church Postgraduate and Doctoral Studies
The small three-story mansion housed classrooms and administrative offices. In the Church of St. John the Baptist near Bor, students in the priesthood will regularly participate in divine services
The list of those enrolled in the All-Church Postgraduate School has been published
As the rector noted, the main goal of graduate school is to train highly qualified personnel for the Russian Orthodox Church. We are talking about both managerial personnel and scientists and church and diplomatic workersIssues related to the study of historical archives of the Russian Orthodox Church were discussed at the All-Church Postgraduate School
By October 1, 2010, the All-National Postgraduate and Doctoral Studies named after. St. Cyril and Methodius will move to the Chernigov courtyard in ZamoskvorechyeMetropolitan Hilarion took part in a meeting of rectors of theological schools of the Russian Orthodox Church
On May 26, Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople visited the DECR and gave a lecture to students of the All-Church Postgraduate and Doctoral Studies "Peace as a Sacrament. Theological and Spiritual Vision of the World."Patriarch Kirill met with students of the All-Church Postgraduate School at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior
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On May 7, 2010, in the Red Hall of the chambers of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, a meeting was held between His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus' with students of the All-Church graduate and doctoral studies named after Saints Cyril and Methodius. The meeting was attended by the rector of the All-Church Postgraduate School, Chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, the Vice-Rector of the All-Church Postgraduate School Archpriest Vladimir Shmaliy, the Secretary of the Academic Council A.I. Mramornov.
