Spiritual Academy Saint Petersburg
The St. Petersburg Spiritual Academy ( Russian Санкт-Петербургская Духовная Академия ) is an educational institution of the Russian Orthodox Church in St. Petersburg , to which a museum of ecclesiastical archeology is affiliated.
structure
The St. Petersburg Spiritual Academy consists of five departments:
- Theological Academy: a theological college that trains candidates for priesthood and religion teachers as well as qualified theologians ; the academy can only be attended by graduates of a seminar; there is a two-year and a three-year study program.
- Theological seminar : serves to train candidates for priesthood in a five-year course .
- Cantors' school: Cantors for church choirs are trained in a four-year course .
- Icon painting school : a four-year course.
- Foreign Students Faculty: Orthodox and non-Orthodox students from abroad can study in special courses or according to the curriculum of the seminary and academy.
There is also a large library and a museum for church archeology.
Educational mandate
The statutes of the Spiritual Academy were approved on April 29, 1992 and October 28, 1997 by the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia , Alexius II . On June 19, 2003, the academy received state approval no. 0871 from the Ministry of General and Higher Education, with which it was granted the right to undertake educational work in the field of religious education.
According to these documents, the Academy defines its activity as follows: The guarantee of higher education of a self-contained kind for Orthodox Christians with the aim of preparing for the priesthood, for teaching at theological schools, for church work at the Synod, in the dioceses and the monasteries of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Church establishment
The Spiritual Academy is subordinate to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia and works particularly closely with the Education Committee of the Patriarchate.
history
The Spiritual Academy sees itself as the successor to the Petrograd Academy, which was closed in 1918 and reopened in 1946. This goes back to the Slavic-Greco-Latin School , which was founded in the Alexander Nevsky Monastery in 1725 and transformed into the advanced seminar in 1778 and renamed the Alexander Nevsky Academy in 1797 . In 1908 this was divided into three departments: the theological academy ( university ), the theological seminary ( college ) and the theological school ( high school ). During the whole of its existence, the aim of the academy was to train qualified clerics and to continuously improve the training. From this endeavor, the magazine "Theologische Schriften" was founded in 1821 . In 1860 "Der Wanderer" was added and in 1875 the weekly "Kirchenbote" was added.
management
The Spiritual Academy has been headed by Archbishop Amwrossi (Witali Anatoljewitsch Yermakow) since October 2008 .
Notable graduates
- Tikhon (1865–1925), Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia
- Sergius II (Ivan Nikolajewitsch Stragorodski, 1867–1944), Patriarch of Moscow and all of Russia
- Theophan (Bystrow) (1875–1940), archbishop, confessor of Tsar Nicholas II and his wife
- Justin Popović (1894–1979), Orthodox theologian
- Alexius II (1929–2008), Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia
- Kyrill I (* 1946), as successor to Alexius II. Patriarch of Moscow and all of Russia
- Feofan Galinskij (1954–2017), Archbishop of Berlin and all of Germany
- Juozapas Jonas Skvireckas (1873–1959), Lithuanian Roman Catholic Archbishop of Kaunas
Web links
- Internet presence
- Article at Orthodoxwiki