Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies

The Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies (MASI) is an institute at Saint Paul University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada specializing in Eastern Christian studies. Special emphasis is placed on the tradition of the Church of Kyiv, although courses, seminars, and conferences also deal with aspects of theology, spirituality, history, and ecclesial polity of all the Eastern Christian Churches—Orthodox, Oriental non-Chalcedonian, Assyrian, and Eastern Rite Roman Catholic.

The Sheptytsky Institute offers undergraduate and graduate university degree programs in Eastern Christian Studies. At the undergraduate level there is the Civil Baccalaureate, an Ecclesiastical Baccalaureate, and a Certificate in Eastern Christian Studies. At the graduate level there is a Master of Arts, a Licentiate in Theology, a Ph.D., and a D.Th. in Eastern Christian Studies. The Sheptytsky Institute is the only academic institution in North America with an accredited doctoral program in Eastern Christian Studies. The Institute's four areas of concentration are Spirituality-Doctrine, Liturgical Studies, Historical Studies, and Ecumenism and Eastern Christianity.

History

The Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute was originally founded in 1986 at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. In September 1990, the Sheptytsky Institute moved to Ottawa, and in May 1992 became an academic unit of the Faculty of Theology at Saint Paul University.^[1]

From 1987, the Sheptytsky Institute offers month-long summer intensive programs. Past locations included: Holy Transfiguration (Mount Tabor) Monastery in Redwood Valley, California; Mother of God Monastery in Orangeville, Ontario; Holy Spirit Seminary in Ottawa. Since 1996, the Institute has co-sponsored a summer program at the Univ Lavra, near Lviv, Ukraine, together with the Ukrainian Catholic University. 2008 saw the first "Study Days" in Ottawa, later spreading to Edmonton. Guest speakers have included Thomas Hopko, Frederica Mathewes-Green, Robert F. Taft, and John Behr.^[2]

The Sheptytsky Institute publishes a peer-reviewed journal, Logos: A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies, originally founded in 1950 by Metropolitan Maxim Hermaniuk of Winnipeg, and published in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, by the Redemptorist Fathers until 1983. A new series of Logos was inaugurated in Ottawa and began with Vol. 34 (1993).

The Institute's Byzantine Rite Chapel of Sts. Joachim and Anne holds services in English, French, Ukrainian, and other languages such as Greek and Church Slavonic.^[3]

An endowment from the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute Foundation, operating under the aegis of the Ukrainian Catholic Bishops of Canada, funds the Institute's work.

Scholarly Events

In October 2014, the institute organized a conference "The Vatican II Decree on the Eastern Catholic Churches, Orientalium ecclesiarum - Fifty Years Later" featuring presentations by Brian E. Daley, John H. Erickson, Bishop Nicholas Samra, Thomas Bird, Roman Zaviyskyy, Bishop David Motiuk, Peter Galadza and many other speakers. The conference was held at the University of Toronto, October, 17 & 18 2014.^[4]

In November 2014, the institute held the conference "Religion in the Ukrainian Public Square: An Analysis of the Euromaidan and Its Aftermath" featuring presentations by Victor Yelensky, Cyril Hovorun, Igor Shchupak, George Weigel and others. The conference was held at the University of Toronto 15 November 2014.

Directors

• Andriy Chrivosky (1986-2002), founding director
• Andrew Onuferko (2002-2006), acting director
• Stephen Wojcichowsky (2007-2013), director
• Alexander Laschuk (2013–2014), interim director
• Peter Galadza (2014-present), acting director

Faculty

• Andriy Chirovsky (1986–present), Peter and Doris Kule Professor of Eastern Christian Theology and Spirituality
• Peter Galadza (1992–present), Kule Family Professor of Liturgy

See also

• Catholic Theological Union in Chicago
• Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv
• Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome
• Andrey Sheptytsky
• Archimandrite Boniface Luykx

References

External links

• Official Sheptytsky Institute website