Syktyvkar Theological College

Ust-Sysolsky Theological School

The theological school was opened in 1822 and was originally located in the city of Yarensk in its own wooden one-story house. On the night of June 15, 1871, the school building burned down. At this time, it was decided to transfer the school from Yarensk to Ust-Sysolsk.

On August 17, 1873, the school was opened in Ust-Sysolsk and was originally housed in a wooden two-story house belonging to the archpriest of Ust-Sysolskago Cathedral Koksharov. The building, built as a private dwelling, was completely unsuitable for placement in an educational institution, in connection with this admission to the school was sometimes limited. Due to lack of funds, the construction of a new building was postponed.

In 1886, a member of the Educational Committee under the Holy Synod Zinchenko was at the school with revision, and in 1888 the school was visited by Bishop Ioanniky, vicar of the Vologda diocese . After that, the matter of preparing for the construction of a new building went faster.

The foundation was laid on May 20, 1888 , and the consecration and grand opening of the Ust-Sysolsky Theological School took place on October 28, 1890 . At that time, the building was the largest in Ust-Sysolsk ^[1] .

For a quarter of a century since the construction of the school building, he was visited by the member of the Educational Committee P.F. Polyansky, the Vologda bishops Alexy (Sobolev) , Nikon (Rozhdestvensky) and Alexander (Trapitsyn) , the Bishops of Velikoustyuzhsky - Varsonofy (Kurganov) (twice), Anthony (Karzhavin) , Gabriel (Golosov) and Alexy (Belkovsky) (three times), many of the Vologda governors. On June 3, 1898, the school was visited by His Imperial Highness Grand Duke Sergiy Alexandrovich .

In 1917, the requisitioned building was the headquarters of the Pinego-Pechora region of the Northern Front of the Red Army, and in 1918 the building was transferred to the district department of public education and since September 1919 part of the premises was occupied by teacher training courses ^[1] , which were later transformed into the Komi State Pedagogical Institute - The first higher educational institution of the Komi region.

Currently, the National Gallery of the Komi Republic is located in the former building of the Ust-Sysolsky Theological School.

On November 30, 1959, by the decree of the Council of Ministers of the Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic No. 406, the school building was included in the list of cultural heritage of the Republic of Komi .

Syktyvkar Theological School

In 1996, at the Stefan Trinity Monastery , the Syktyvkar Theological School was opened ^[2] ; The authorities refused to return the historic building. In the same year, 6 young men were recruited for the psalm department and 6 young women for the regensty ^[3] .

On July 16, 2013, the Holy Synod determined: “To provide theological schools that train clergy personnel with a three-year term for conversion to theological seminaries or educational institutions (centers) that train parish specialists in the field of mission and catechesis, youth and social work” ^[4] .

Since September 1, 2013, the school conducted educational activities in the correspondence form and the form of external studies . As of January 15, 2014, 42 students were studying at the educational school ^[5] .

On February 18, 2014, the Syktyvkar City Court of the Komi Republic ruled that since the establishment of the theological school in 1996, educational activities have been carried out without a license, and therefore obliged the "institution of secondary vocational religious education" Syktyvkar Orthodox Theological School "of the Syktyvkar and Vorkuta diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church about to obtain a license for the right to carry out educational activities within 3 months from the date of entry into force of this decision ” ^[5] .

On July 15, 2016, the Holy Synod decided to assimilate the Syktyvkar Theological School, along with several other disbanded spiritual schools, the name of the "spiritual center for the training of church specialists in the field of catechism, missionary, youth and social activities" ^[4] .

Church Specialist Training Center

On July 23, 2017, the first organizational meeting was held in the administration of the Syktyvkar diocese, where it was decided according to the Resolution of the Holy Synod to create a “Center for the Training of Church Specialists” in Syktyvkar with a two-year term of study. Student enrollment is planned for the 2017 school year ^[6] .