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(315) 985-8196 E-Mail: Apsarev@Gmail.Com Andrei V. Psarev 2596 Jordanville Rd, Jordanville, New York 13361 Telephone: (315) 985-8196 E-mail: [email protected] EDUCATION October 2009 – present Ph. D. candidate School of History and Anthropology, Queen’s University, Belfast Thesis title: The Limits of Communion in the Byzantine Church (861-1300): Historical and Theological Analysis of Canons 13, 14 and 15 of the First and Second Councils in Constantinople (861) May 2004 Master of Theology Saint Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary, Crestwood, NY Major in Church History, minor in Canon Law. M. Th. thesis: The Attitude of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad toward Non-Orthodox Christians and the Ecumenical Movement (1920-1964): A Historical Evaluation June 1995 Bachelor of Theology Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary, Jordanville, New York B. Th. thesis: The Life of Leontii, Archbishop of Chile and Peru [in Russian] CONTINUING EDUCATION 2006-2008, 2010-2011 Institute of Byzantine Studies, School of History and Anthropology, Queen’s University, Belfast Summer program in Byzantine Greek 2008 The University of Edinburgh Intermediate Koine Greek Summer Course TEACHING EXPERIENCE Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary, Jordanville, New York September 1995 – present Instructor. Russian History 122 (4 credits); Russian Church History 225, 226 (3 credit); Canon Law 425(4 credits); World History 213 (4 credits). The Pastoral School of the Chicago and Midwest Diocese of the Russian Church Abroad, Chicago, Illinois September 2012 – present Instructor. History & Principles of the Orthodox Church 101 [online course] June 2013 – present Instructor. Byzantine History 113 [online course] May 2017 – present Patreon.com 1 Private tutoring in Russian Church history, Canon Law EXPERIENCE July 2015 Organized, raised funds and lead a filed trip to students of Byzantine History-213 to Istanbul January 2015 Representative of Pravoslavnaia Entsiklopedia, an ongoing reference project, in the US October 2014 – present Member of the Inter Council Presence of the Russian Orthodox Church May 2011 – present Member of the publishing committee of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR). January 2014 – 2017 Member of the canonization committee of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia. April 2010- June 2011 Member of the editorial board of Triotstkoe Nasledie, Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary July 2009 Ordained deacon November 2008 Founder and administrator of the Web site Historical Studies of the Russian Church Abroad (www.rocorstudies.org) as a meeting place for those who are concerned about the past and present of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR) May 2008 Ordained subdeacon October 2007 – present Consulting editor for Pravoslavnaia Entsiklopedia, encyclopedia of the Russian Orthodox Church in Moscow. May 2006 Member of the Fourth Pan-Diaspora Council January 2002 – 2004 Editor of the Tserkovnaia Zhizn’, journal of the Synod of Bishops of the ROCOR January 2002 – July 2003 Secretary to Bishop Gabriel of Manhattan, Secretary of the Synod of the Bishops of the ROCOR October 2001- 2011 Served on the commission for the revision of the statute of the ROCOR 1991-2000 Established and developed archive of the Holy Trinity Monastery Printshop. May 1998 Tonsured reader November 1989- June 2001 Editor and correspondent and for the periodicals Pravoslavnaia Rus’ and Pravoslavnaia Zhizn‘ , Holy Trinity Monastery, Jordanville, NY September 1985 Baptized in the Russian Orthodox Church Summer 1984 Assistant librarian at the Lenin State Library (now Russian State Library) in Moscow, USSR FELLOWSHIPS Travel and research grants from Fellowship of St. Alban and St. Sergius, 2005, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017 Scholarship grant from the Fund for Assistance to the ROCOR (FFA), 2008, 2012, 2013, 2014 Travel grant from the FFA, 2011, 2013, 2015 Development grants from the FFA for the Web site Historical Studies of Russian Church Abroad, 2010-2017 Scholarship and research grants from Russian Orthodox Theological Fund (ROTF), 1991-1994, 2006 Scholarship grants from St. Vladimir's Seminary, 2001-2004 PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS February 2013 Association for Slavic, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies August 2016 Byzantine Studies Association of North America January 2012 American Society of Church History December 2009 Society of the Law of the Eastern Churches October 2009 Advisory Board of the Society for Orthodox Christian History in the Americas 2 May 2009 Senior Fellow of the Sophia Institute: International Advanced Research Forum For Eastern Christian Life and Culture June 2007 Orthodox Theological Society in America June 2005 Association for the Study of Eastern Christian History and Culture BOOK IN PROGRESS History of the Orthodox Church in Russia. [Forthcoming from St. Innocent Press] PUBLICATIONS [together with Dmitrii P. Anashkin], Archbishop Nathanail (L’vov), Pravoslavnaia Entsiklopedia 48 (Moscow, 2017) [together with Nadieszda Kizenko] “The Russian Church Abroad, the Moscow Patriarchate, and their Participation in Ecumenical Assemblies, during the Cold War, 1948-1964,” in North American Christian Community and the Cold War, Paul Mojzes, ed. (Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, MI: 2018) “Criteria used by the Russian Church Abroad for its Canonization,” [In Russian] Proceedings of the Annual Conference, St. Tikhon’s University for the Humanities (Moscow, 2017). “ ‘They Have Neither Laymen Nor Money’: Overview of the Correspondence (1907-1911) between Archbishop Tikhon Bellavin and Archpriest Evgenii Smirnov,” Sobornost 37 (2, 2015) “Current law of the Russian Orthodox Church,” Kanon: Yearbook of the Society for the Law of the Eastern Churches 23 (2014) “Archbishop Leontii of Chile and Peru,” [In Russian] Pravoslavnaia Entsiklopedia 40 (Moscow, 2015) “Metropolitan Lavr (Skurla),” [in Russian] Pravoslavnaia Entsiklopedia 39 (Moscow, 2015) “The 22th Congress of the Society for the Law of the Eastern Churches,” Thesalonkie, September 13-17, 2011” [in Russian]. http://www.bogoslov.ru/text/4712939.html “May 1964: A Radical Change in the History of the Russian Church Abroad.” Orthodoxhistory.org: The Society for Orthodox Christian History in the Americas. http://orthodoxhistory.org/2012/08/27/may-1964-a-radical-change- in-the-history-of-the-russian-church-abroad [Together with Vladimir Bureha] “St. Job of Pochaev Brotherhoods and Their Role in the History of the Russian Church Abroad,” Trudi Kiivs’koi Dukhovnoi Akademii 16 (2012) [In Russian]; Vestnik Germanskoi Eparkhii Russkoi Pravoslavanoi Tserkvi za granitsei, 1-2 (2016);“Die Bruderschaften des hl. Hiob von Počaev und ihre Rolle in der Geschichte der Russischen Orthodoxen Kirche im Ausland,” Der Bote der deutschen Diözese der Russischen Orthdoxen Kirche im Ausland, 1-2 (2016). “Looking Toward Unity: How the Russian Church Abroad Viewed the Patriarchate of Moscow, 1927-2007,” Greek Orthodox Theological Review 1-4 (2007) [c] 2010; Russian translation: Bogoslov.ru 3 “The 20th Congress of the Society for the Law of the Eastern Churches. Athens, September 13-17, 2011” [in Russian]. Published on the Web site of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia: http://www.synod.com/synod/2011/20110929_athens.html [In Russian. Sept. 30, 2011]. Reposted on a number of Russian Web sites. English translation: http://www.synod.com/synod/eng2011/20110929_enathens.html “The History of the Russian Church Abroad in Portrait of Her Faithful Servants” [in Russian]. Published on the Web site of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia: http://www.synod.com/synod/history/his_psarevhistoryrocor.html [In Russian Apr. 16, 2011] Republished in the proceedings of the conference The Nativity of Christ and Christmas Tidings in the Traditions of Orthodox Nations (Rostov-on-Don, January 14, 2011). Shakhty, Russia, 2011. English translation: http://www.russianorthodoxchurch.ws/synod/enghistory/enhis_psarevhistoryrocor.html [Apr. 16, 2011] “Archbishop Vitaly Maksimenko: An Historical Portrait on the Occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of His Repose.” Pravoslavnaia Zhizn’ 10 (2009), Holy Trinity Monastery, Jordanville, NY. Published in Russian in abbreviated form in Troistkoe Nasledie 1.27 (Spring 2010) journal of Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary and in Orthodox Life 2 (2010). Holy Trinity Monastery, Jordanville, NY “Exarch,” “Excommunication,” “Canon Law,” “Canonization,” and “Repentance,” Encyclopedia of Eastern Orthodox Christianity, ed. John A. McGuckin 1-2 (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011) [Together with Dmitrii P. Anashkin] “Metropolitan Hilarion (Kapral),” [in Russian]. Pravoslavnaia Entsiklopedia 22 (Moscow, 2009) “The Annual Orthodox Theological Society of America Conference is Held” [in Russian]. Published on the Web sites of the ROCOR and Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary. Republished in Pravoslavnaia Rus’ 10 (2009). English translation: http://www.hts.edu/seminary/news/en/20090604.html [July 10, 2009]. Republished on Portal Credo.Ru; pravoslavie.ru “Timeline of Archbishop Leonty of Chile and Peru”. Published on the Web site Historical Studies of the Russian Church Abroad http://rocorstudies.org/?sid=210&idpage=archbishop_leontii [2009]. Posted in Spanish on the Web site of the Orthodox mission in Chile: http://www.misionortodoxa.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19:memoria- eterna&catid=9:memoria-eterna&Itemid=60 “Metropolitan Kallistos Ware of Diokleia and the Russian Church Abroad.” Published on the Web site Historical Studies of the Russian Church Abroad http://rocorstudies.org/index.php?part=articles&article_id=459#requestForm [Nov. 30, 2008] “The Place
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