Kiev Theological Academy

Kiev Brotherhood School (1615–1631)

Initially, in 1615 , the Kiev Brotherhood School was established in the Epiphany Monastery by Archimandrite Elisha Pletenetsky, designed to study classical languages, rhetoric , theology and some subjects of elementary education.

Kiev Metropolitan Peter Mogila united this school with the school he founded; the institution subsequently received the title of higher education institution, known as the Kiev-Mohyla College ( 1631 - 1701 ).

Kiev-Mohyla College (1631-1701)

In its basic character, the college resembled foreign colleges and academies in which the Grave himself studied. Here were taught: languages ​​(Slavic, Greek and Latin), singing and elementary theory of music (on the European model), catechism , arithmetic , poetry , rhetoric , philosophy and theology; The students were divided into eight classes: analogy , or headlight , infima , grammar , syntaxim , pititika , rhetoric , philosophy and theology . In addition to studying these subjects, the students practiced disputes every Saturday. The leaders were: rector , prefect (inspector and economist) and superintendent (overseer of the deanery of the pupils); of the figures of this college are most famous: Innokenty Gisel , Joasaf Krokovsky , Lazar Baranovich , Ioannikiy Golyatovsky , Anthony Radzivilovsky , Gabriel Dometsky , Varlaam Yasinsky , St. Dimitri (Tuptalo) , Stefan Yavorsky , Feofilakt Lopatinsky , Feofan Prokopovich , St. Innocent Kulchinsky and Gabriel Buyaninsky .

Kiev-Mohyla Academy (1701-1817)

In 1701 the college was renamed the academy, and the circle of sciences was expanded: the languages ​​French, German and Jewish, natural history, geography, and mathematics were introduced; architecture and painting , higher eloquence, rural and home economics, medicine and Russian rhetoric were also taught for some time.

The number of teachers by the end of XVIII reached 20 or more; there were more than 10,000 books in the academic library. Theology since 1759 was taught according to the system of Feofan Prokopovich, rhetoric - according to the manual for the eloquence of Lomonosov, other subjects, mainly - according to foreign manuals.

The external welfare of the Academy at first was unenviable. Students, the number of which reached 500, were partly supported by monastic funds, and partly they themselves collected money, food and firewood donations from the city; dispersed in the cities and villages of the Kiev and Chernigov provinces to collect alms, and they sang sacred verses in front of the windows of the houses. Before the holidays of Christmas and Easter we went with a star, nativity scene and district committee. In the summer, they gathered in wandering groups and scattered to different places in order to get food for themselves by singing Kant, presenting dramas, tragedies and comedies, reciting poems and speeches, and sending services in the parish churches. Donations from the Court, clergy, nobles and hetmans somewhat eased the fate of the poor. Since the end of the XVIII century. the government began to allocate special amounts for the maintenance of the academy. The Kiev Academy is important in the history of Russian education of the XVIII century.

A significant number of figures emerged from it in various fields of public service: its pupils became teachers at the Moscow Slavic-Greek-Latin Academy , the St. Petersburg Alexander Nevsky Seminary and the Kazan Academy ; they set up many seminaries again.

With the advent of Moscow University (1755) and Kharkov University (1805), the importance of the Kiev-Mohyla Academy fell. By order of the government and the decree of the Synod of August 14, 1817, it was closed. At the same time, the Kiev Theological Seminary was established in Kiev .

Kiev Theological Academy (1819-1919)

The Kiev Theological Academy was opened “in its new structure” on September 28, 1819 in its historical place, in the Bogoy Epiphany school monastery ^[1] .

The activities of the Kiev Theological Academy and the distinguished historian professors from the KDA who lived on St. Andrew's Descent : Athanasius Bulgakov , Stepan Golubev , Pyotr Kudryavtsev , Fedor Titov , Alexander Glagolev and others are dedicated to several museum windows of the Kiev Museum of One Street .

There is debate in the scientific community about whether the Kiev Theological Academy can be considered the successor of the Kiev-Mohyla Academy, since after the reform of 1819 the educational process completely changed and only one person was left from the old teaching staff.

Closing during the years of Soviet rule

In 1919, the Kiev Theological Academy was officially closed by Soviet authorities. In Soviet times , a naval political school was located on its territory ^[2] . However, for several years, classes continued at the newly created Orthodox Theological Academy, which was headed by the last rector of the KLA Archpriest Alexander Glagolev, and the professors who remained in Kiev were teachers. This academy did not have a specific room, classes were held in private apartments. There is information that it existed in 1925 ^[3] .

After the collapse of the USSR and the formation of independent Ukraine , in 1992 the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kiev Patriarchate (UOC-KP) independently established two educational institutions under the name "Kiev Theological Academy", each of which was announced to be is the assignee of the Kiev Theological Academy, closed by the Soviet government in 1919 . Subsequently, the Kiev Theological Academy of the UOC-KP was named the “Kiev Orthodox Theological Academy”.

Kiev Theological Academy (UOC-MP)

Located on the territory of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra .

From May 31, 2007 to December 21, 2017, the rector of the Academy was Anthony (Pakanich) , Metropolitan of Brovarsky, managing the affairs of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

On December 21, 2017, Sylvester (Stoychev) , Bishop of Belogorodsky, was appointed rector of the Kiev Theological Academy and Seminary.

Printed publications: Proceedings of the Kiev Theological Academy and the student magazine Academic Chronicler .

Kiev Orthodox Theological Academy (UOC-KP)

Located on the territory of St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery .

The rector of the Academy is currently Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine Epifaniy (Dumenko) . From July 6, 2000 to July 27, 2010, the rector was Metropolitan Dimitry (Rudyuk) .

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• National University "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy"
• List of leaders of the Kiev-Mohyla Academy

• Official site of the Kiev Theological Academy and Seminary of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church
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• Graduates of the Kiev Theological Academy