Spiritual Academy

Spiritual academy is the name given to educational institutions of the Orthodox Churches , which mostly consist of a seminary , a church college and a school ( grammar school ) with boarding school and often emerged from a Slavic-Greek-Latin school .

In detail these are the following:

Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople

• Chalki seminar (closed in 1971 by the Turkish state)
• Orthodox Academy of Crete

Armenian Apostolic Church

• Armasch (Akmesche near Izmit) (until 1915)
• Holy Cross Seminar (closed by the Turkish state in 1970)

Bulgarian Orthodox Church

• Spiritual Academy Sofia
• Spiritual Academy of Plovdiv

Georgian Orthodox Apostles Church

• Spiritual Academy Tbilisi

Russian Orthodox Church

• Kazan Spiritual Academy
• Spiritual Academy Kiev
• Spiritual Academy Minsk
• Moscow Spiritual Academy
• Spiritual Academy Saint Petersburg

Serbian Orthodox Church

• Spiritual Academy of St. Vasilije von Ostrog in Srbinje / Foča, Bosnia-Herzegovina

Belarusian Orthodox Church

• Spiritual Academy in the Zhirovichi (Shirowitschi) Monastery

See also

• Orthodox seminary