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CYRIL (SERHIY) HOVORUN FIELDS OF EXPERTISE Christian traditions of late antiquity ecumenism and convergence of traditions ecclesiology political theology and social ethics dialogue between religion and science international cooperation of theological schools SKILLS conducting cutting edge research in theological disciplines teaching in various cultural and confessional contexts working on crossroads of disciplines, cultures, and traditions organizing educational process producing analysis and reports on burning issues of modernity language proficiency: Ukrainian, Russian, Old Slavonic, Modern Greek, and English (speaking); Latin, Ancient Greek, French, and Italian (reading) POSITIONS Vice-dean for Political ecclesiology at Sankt Ignatios Academy (Sweden) Co-chairman of the Centre for Eastern Christian Studies at Stockholm School of Theology Postdoctoral teaching fellow at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles International fellow at Chester Ronning Centre for the Study of Religion and Public Life (University of Alberta) PUBLISHED MONOGRAPHS (2017) Scaffords of the Church: Towards Poststructural Ecclesiology (Eugene, OR: Cascade – in print) (2015) Meta-Ecclesiology, Chronicles on Church Awareness, (New York: Palgrave Macmillan). (2008) Will, Action and Freedom. Christological Controversies in the Seventh Century. Leiden - Boston: Brill The Medieval Mediterranean, 77. EDUCATION Cyril Hovorun 2 1992 Department of Physics at the Kiev National University 1994 Kiev Theological Seminary (BTh) 1998 Kiev Theological Academy (MTh) Thesis: Movement of the Kollybades in Greece in the 18th Century and its Influence on the Development of the Church of Greece (in Russian). 2000 Department of Theology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (BA) 2003 MA and PhD in Theology at the University of Durham (UK) Thesis: Theological Controversy in the Seventh Century Concerning Activities and Wills in Christ. University of Durham, UK. Supervisor: Andrew Louth. Published by Brill: Cyril Hovorun. 2008. Will, Action and Freedom. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Full time: 2002-2005 Early Christian traditions at the Moscow Theological Seminary ‘Sretenskaya’ 2003-2007 Early Christian traditions at the Moscow Theological Academy 2007-2012 Early Christian traditions at the Kiev Theological Academy 2009-2012 Early Christian traditions and methodology of research at the Doctoral School of the Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow) 2014-present Systematic theology at Sankt Ignatius Theological Academy, Stockholm 2016 Political theology at the National University of ‘Kyiv-Mohyla Academy’ (Kiev, Ukraine) 2016-2017 Eastern Christian Traditions at the Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles Cyril Hovorun 3 Lectured at: Seminary ‘Makarios III’ in Peking University, China Nairobi, Kenya Tsinghua University in Beijing, Minsk Theological Academy, China Belarus’ Renmin University in Beijing, St Tikhon’s Humanitarian China University, Moscow Capital Normal University in Smolensk Theological Seminary, Beijing, China Russia Minzu University in Beijing, China Nikolo-Ugresh Theological Beijing Language & Culture Seminary in Moscow University, China Kazan Theological Seminary, Nanjing Theological Seminary, Russia China Penza Theological Seminary, Princeton Theological Seminary, Russia USA Saratov Theological Seminary, Nankai University in Tianjin, Russia China Nizhny Novgorod Theological Chinese Academy of Social Seminary, Russia Science, Beijing Tavricheskaya Theological University of Uppsala, Sweden Seminary in Simferopol, Ukraine University of Manitoba, Canada Poltava Theological Seminary, University of Winnipeg, Canada Ukraine University of Regina, Canada Orthodox Seminary in Paris University of Alberta, Canada Villanova University, USA Harvard University University of Heidelberg, Germany Yale University Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam National University 'Kyiv-Mohyla University of Oxford Academy' (Ukraine) Chinese University of Hong Kong University of Munich Lutheran Seminary in Hong Kong University of Iceland Alliance Bible Seminary in Hong Butler University (Indianapolis) Kong University of the Fraser Valley St Joseph University in Macau (Canada) Taiwan Theological College and Zhejiang University (China) Seminary Durham University Beijing Normal University, China Columbia University Cyril Hovorun 4 Supervised Master and Doctroral theses at: Kiev Theological Academy Moscow Theological Academy Doctoral School of the Russian Orthodox Church Oxford University Member of Committees for defending theses: Dissertational Council of the Russian Orthodox Church University of Uppsala, Sweden Membership and fellowship: Accompaniment Group for the Ecumenical Institute at Bossey, Switzerland American Academy of Religion Association for the Sociology of Religion International Association of Patristic Studies (AIEP-IAPS) Cyril Hovorun 5 Selected presentations at recent conferences (2012- 2016) Title of paper Conference The Lviv Sobor through the Prism of Pro Oriente conference “The “Lviv Sobor” of 1946 and its Political Religion Aftermath to the Present: Arriving at a Common Narrative” Vienna, June 2016 The Ukrainian Churches in the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies Process of Reconciliation annual conference Cambridge, April 2016 Christian Duty in Ukraine Georgetown University conference on “Christian Peacemaking, Truth, and Reconciliation in Ukraine” Washington DC, April 2016 The Challenges that the Ukrainian Conference of the European Society for Catholic Theology Orthodox Churches Face L’viv, March 2016 Religion and the crisis in Ukraine American Academy of Religion Atlanta, November 2015 Fundamentalism in eastern International conference “Political theology: theological reflection Christianity on contemporary politics” Belgrade, November 2015 Russian Theologians on the International Conference “Models of Unity in the Quest for Boundaries of the Church Christian Unity 19th 20th Century” Bose, Italy, October 2015 The Letter of the Polish Bishops as Conference on the 50th anniversary of the Letter by Polish an inspiration in seeking solutions to Fathers of Concilium Vaticanum II “We forgive and we beg for actual conflicts forgiveness” Rome, October 2015 The Church and War - a 5th International Congress of Belorussian Studies Complicated Dialectics of Relationship Kaunas, October 2015 The Role of the Churches in the Council on Christian Approaches to Defence and Disarmament Ukrainian Crisis: Ecumenical Cooperation Baltimore, September 2015 Cyril of Alexandria: a Oxford Patristic Conference Cyril Hovorun 6 phenomenological theologian? Oxford, August 2015 From Byzantium to China: pattrens International Conference on Jing Jiao (Nestorianism) of the church-state relations University of Hong Kong, June 2015 Interpreting the ‘Russian world’ The Churches in the Ukrainian Crisis Freising, Germany November 2014 Theological Languages of Ecumenical Historicizing Ecumenism Convergences Bose, Italy November 2014 Maximus Confessor on primacy Saint Irenaeus Joint Orthodox-Catholic Working Group Rabat, Malta November 2014 Crisis in Ukraine Putin, Religion, and Ukraine Fordham University, New York November 2014 Creative traditionalism: John Polyphonic Theology of the Church Fathers Damascene Heidelberg October 2014 The Paths of the Orthodox Eucharist in Contemporary Orthodox Theology Ecclesiology in the Twentieth Century: Eucharist and Community Bucharest October 2014 Beyond New Jerusalems and New Church in the modern society Romes: Toward the Triangle of Church, Society, and State Joensuu, Finland September 2014 Ecclesiology of Communion as the Communio – koinonia: sources, ways, understanding Common Language of the Confessional Traditions Kiev September 2014 Church-State Relations: Dilemmas of Blessed are Peacemakers Human Freedom and Coercion Bose, Italy September 2014 Ideologies: New Dividing Lines in the Ukrainian Orthodoxy in the Global Family of Orthodox Church Churches Toronto May 2014 Civil religion in the Orthodox milieu Political modernity and the responses by contemporary Orthodox theology Cyril Hovorun 7 Vienna January 2014 Civil Religion and Religious Pluralism The Orthodox and the Other Oslo December 2013 Kiev, Ukraine September 2013 Maximus, a Cautious Neo- Annual meeting of the North Americal Patristic Society Chalcedonian Chicago, IL May 2013 Church Between Sacred and Profane: Church and Democracy Towards Accepting State Stockholm, Sweden February 2013 Evolution of Church Governance: I Concili Ecumenici: aspetti storico-giuridici e canonistici from the Diaspora-Model to Pentarchy Rome, Pontifical Oriental Institute December 2012 Can ‘Canonical Territory’ Survive Canonical territory as a modern challange Modern Ecclesiology? Oslo, Norway December 2012 The Regional and Universal Church Symposium on the involvement of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Current Orthodox-Catholic in ecumenical relations Dialogue Castle of Hernen, The Netherlands November 2012 The Science and Religion Dialogue The Science and Religion Dialogue: Past and Future in the Post-Atheist Setting Heidelberg, Germany October 2012 Borders of Salvation: Reading Fathers Patristic Colloque “For us and for our salvation” - Soteriology in with Russian Theologians East and West Esztergom, Hungary October 2012 Patristics After Neo-Patristics A Celebration of Living Theology Durham, UK July 2012 Transmitting Christian Messages Orientale Lumen Across Cultural Borders Melbourne, Australia July 2012 Educational System