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Saint Tikhon,Patriarch of Moscow (1865-1925): His Life and Times Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary Patriarch Tikhon Russian-American Music Institute, and the Pastoral School of the Diocese of Chicago and Mid-America (ROCOR) Symposium Saint Tikhon,Patriarch of Moscow (1865-1925): His Life and Times October 9-10, 2015, Holy Trinity Monastery, Jordanville, N.Y. PROGRAM NB: ALL sessions and papers will take place in the Seminary Hall of Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary, located on the grounds of Holy Trinity Monastery, Jordanville, N.Y. Friday, October 9 6:00 am Divine Liturgy – Holy Trinity Cathedral 7:30 am Breakfast – Holy Trinity Monastery Refectory 8:00 am Registration Open – Seminary Hall 9:15 am Opening of the Conference & Greeting from the Rector 9:30 am Metropolitan Jonah (Paffhausen) (Washington, D.C.), The Legacy of St Tikhon as Missionary in America. 10:05 am Coffee break 10:30 am Matthew Namee (Society for Orthodox History in Americas), American Orthodoxy in the Vision and Thought of St Tikhon. Andrei Kostryukov (St Tikhon’s University, Moscow, Russia), The Directives of Patriarch Tikhon Concerning the Russian Church Abroad in Early 1920s. [in Russian] Short Communication: Nicholas S. Kotar (Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary/PATRAM Institute), Presentation on the Founding and Work of Patriarch Tikhon Russian-American Music Institute (PATRAM). 1 12:00 pm Lunch - Monastery Refectory 2:00 pm Archpriest Gregory Joyce (Chicago Pastoral School of ROCOR), The Veneration of Saint Tikhon in Russia and North America. 2:35 pm Coffee break 3:00-4:30 pm Aleksandr Gavrilin (University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia), Patriarch Tikhon and the Canonical Status of the Orthodox Church in Latvia and Estonia in 1920s. [in Russian] Archpriest Igor Kamennyy (Kiev Theological Academy, Kiev, Ukraine), The View of Saint Tikhon Concerning the “Ukrainian Question.” Short Communication: Nicholas Chapman, Managing Director, Holy Trinity Publications, Presentation of The New Edition of Jane Swan’s Biography of Patriarch Tikhon. 4:20-5:30 pm Break 5:30- 6:25 pm Francesca Silano (Ph.D. Candidate, University of Toronto), Patriarch Tikhon, the American Experience, and the Soviet State. Short Communication: Dmitry Bogdanov (Velikie Luki and Nevel Diocese, Russian Orthodox Church), Patriarch Tikhon’s Small Homeland. [in Russian] 7:00 pm Dinner – Monastery Refectory 7:20 pm Small Compline & Evening Prayers – Holy Trinity Cathedral Saturday, October 10 6:00 am Divine Liturgy – Holy Trinity Cathedral 7:30 am Breakfast – Monastery Refectory 9:00 am David C. Ford (St Tikhon’s Orthodox Theological Seminary), Saint Tikhon and the Founding of Saint Tikhon’s Monastery. 9:35 am Coffee Break 2 10:00 am PUBLIC KEYNOTE LECTURE Scott M. Kenworthy, Associate Professor of Comparative Religion, Miami University (Oxford, OH) Before the Patriarchate: The Life and Times of St Tikhon of Moscow Before 1917. 12:00 pm Lunch – Monastery Refectory Group photo after lunch – Seminary Hall, front porch 12:30 pm Tour of the Monastery Grounds Bookstore Open 1:30 pm Tour of the Museum 2:00 pm Sergei Firsov (St Petersburg State University), The Person and Image of Patriarch Tikhon in the Soviet Anti-Religious Literature and in the Official Editions of the Moscow Patriarchate.” [in Russian] 2:35 pm Coffee break 3:00 pm Deacon Andrei Psarev (Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary/Queens University, Belfast), “They Have Neither Laymen Nor Money”: Overview of the Correspondence Between Archbishop Tikhon (Bellavin) and Archpriest Evgenii Smirnov, 1907-1911. Deacon Alexander Zanemonets (Academic College of Jezreel Valley, Israel), The Legacy of Patriarch Tikhon in the Work of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in the Holy Land. 4:10 pm Discussion, Q&A 4:30 pm Archimandrite Luke (Rector, Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary), Closing Remarks 6:00 pm Dinner – Monastery Refectory 7:00 pm All-Night Vigil – Holy Trinity Cathedral Sunday, October 11 9:00 am Divine Liturgy – Holy Trinity Cathedral 11:30 am Trapeza and Departures 3 OUR KEYNOTE SPEAKER Dr Scott M. Kenworthy is an Associate Professor of Comparative Religion at Miami University (Oxford, Ohio). His research interests focus on the history and thought of Eastern Orthodox Christianity, particularly in modern Russia. His first book,The Heart of Russia: Trinity-Sergius, Monasticism and Society after 1825 (Oxford University Press, 2010), won the 2010 Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize of the American Society of Church History. Dr Kenworthy was a Senior Fulbright Scholar in Romania; he has also had fellowships with the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Kennan Institute (Woodrow Wilson Center), the International Research and Exchanges Board, and the Social Science Research Council. He is currently completing a new monograph on St Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow, about whom he will speak at the Symposium. OUR SYMPOSIUM SPEAKERS Dr Sergei L. Firsov is Professor of Philosophy of Religion and Religious Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy of St Petersburg State University, St Petersburg, Russia. Dr David C. Ford is Professor of Church History at St Tikhon’s Orthodox Theological Seminary in South Canaan, Pa. Dr Aleksandr Gavrilin is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of History and Philosophy at the University of Latvia in Riga, Latvia. The Most Rev. Metropolitan Jonah (Paffhausen) is a retired hierarch of the Russian Church Abroad. He was the founder and the abbot (1997-2008) of St John of Shanghai Orthodox Monastery in Manton, Ca., and the primate of the Orthodox Church in America from 2008 to 2012. The Very Rev. Archpriest Gregory Joyce, D. Min., is the Dean of the Pastoral School of the Diocese of Chicago and Mid-America (ROCOR), and the Rector of St Vladimir’s Orthodox Church (ROCOR) in Ann Arbor, Mi. The Rev. Archpriest Igor Kamennyy is a cleric of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and an instructor in the history of philosophy at Kiev Theological Academy and Seminary, Kiev, Ukraine. Dr Andrei A. Kostryukov is Associate Professor of Russian Church History and a leading specialist of the Department of the Modern History of the Russian Orthodox Church at St Tikhon Orthodox University in Moscow, Russia. Matthew F. Namee is an independent scholar in the history of Orthodoxy in America in the 19th-20th centuries, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Society for Orthodox History in the Americas. The Rev. Deacon Andrei Psarev is Instructor in Canon Law and Russian Church History at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary (Jordanville, NY) and a doctoral candidate in Byzantine Studies at the Queens University in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Francesca Silano is a doctoral candidate at the Department of History at the University of Toronto, currently completing her dissertation on Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow. The Rev. Deacon Alexander Zanemonets, Ph.D., is an independent scholar of Russian church history, currently teaching at Academic College of Jezreel Valley in Israel. 4.
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