Damascus, December 3, 2024
Photo: Antiochian Patriarchate
By presidential decree, a new university of Christian theology operated by the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East has been established.
On November 27, President Bashar Al-Assad decreed the establishment of the University of Christian Theology and religious and Philosophical Studies, based in Damascus, the Patriarchate reports.
The new school includes the Faculties of Christian Theology, Philosophical Studies and Comparative Religion, and Religious Studies and History of Religions, and the Institute of Ancient Languages. The school is able to grant a bachelor’s degree from the three faculties, while the institute “provides professional language training in ancient languages to university students and others interested in deepening their studies in theology, religion, philosophy, and related historical studies.”
According to the site of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, the university “seeks to be a progressive intellectual center for higher education that aims to help qualify researchers … and to prepare professors to be influential in their society in openness and creating scientific intellectual dialogue based on analysis, synthesis, and the ability to debate and transfer knowledge to others with the aim of education and deepening respect for others’ beliefs.”
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