OCU theological academy students use ROC textbooks – photos

Event at Kyiv Orthodox Theological Academy. Photo: KPBA press service

At the Kyiv Orthodox Theological Academy of the OCU, students use educational materials of the Russian Orthodox Church. This was reported by Deacon Andriy Hlushchenko, who published photographs from KPBA.

“At the Kyiv Orthodox Theological Academy of the OCU, they quite calmly (albeit unofficially) use not only Russian translations of the Holy Fathers in the academic process, but also theological textbooks published by the ROC itself,” wrote Fr. Andriy, referring to a photo report from KPBA.

In the list of literature recommended to students for a seminar, there appears the textbook “Missiology. Study Guide,” published in 2010 with the blessing and under the general editorship of Archbishop John of Belgorod and Starooskol, head of the Synodal Missionary Department of the ROC.

“Students of OCU institutions are unofficially quite permitted (and when necessary – even encouraged) to use theological literature not merely published ‘in the language of the aggressor,’ but, moreover, issued directly by the ROC itself,” the deacon emphasized.

In the comments under his post, Hennadiy Sukharevskyi stated that OCU students had personally purchased books from him that had been published by the ROC. He also stressed that OCU church shops had worked with Russian products: “They successfully bought items at Sofrino Lavra and sold them in their own shops with a 150% markup, all the while saying that every candle is a bullet, and so on.”

It will be recalled that earlier, an OCU cleric accidentally revealed that he was serving on an antimension signed by Patriarch Kirill.

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