Branch of Sretensky Seminary to open at Pskov Caves Monastery

Pskov, June 19, 2018

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With the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, a branch of Moscow’s Sretensky Seminary will open at the Pskov Caves Monastery, to train clergy of the Russian Orthodox Church with the possibility of obtaining a higher education under the school’s bachelor’s program, reports the Synodal Department for Monasteries and Monasticism of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Courses to be offered include Holy Scriptures, the Heritage of the Holy Fathers of the Orthodox Church, Liturgics, Dogmatic Theology, Practical Disciplines of Pastoral Theology and Spiritual Care, and the Experience of Prominent Pastors of the 19th-20th centuries.

His Eminence Metropolitan Tikhon (Shevkunov), the newly-appointed hierarch of Pskov and Porkhov, was formerly the abbot of Sretensky Monastery and rector of the attached seminary.

The new institution will be the heir to the Pskov Seminary founded in 1723, from which St. Tikhon of Moscow graduated, and the Pechersk Seminary. Seminarians will live and study a mile from the historical Pskov Caves Monastery. Lectures will be offered by professors from Moscow’s Sretensky Seminary and clergy of the Pskov Caves Monastery and Pskov Metropolitanate.

The students of the seminary will also participate in the Pskov Caves monastic life, lead excursions to the monastery, teach Sunday School, and help with the services in the monastery.

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6/19/2018

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“Trembling with fear, I uttered the phrase I had carefully studied so that I wouldn’t mix things up: ‘Your Holiness, bless me to transfer to the Pskov-Caves Monastery and found its metochion in Moscow.’ I stammered out the words, and then froze in horror. But out of nowhere, His Holiness the Patriarch said, ‘Fr. Tikhon! That is very good. Yes, yes, yes—it’s quite needed, really, quite needed.’”

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