Looking Back and Looking Ahead: My ROCOR Studies Work in 2025

What Have I Been Doing in 2025?

The website Historical Studies of the Russian Church Abroad remains close to the heart of my academic mission. There were 19 updates (newsletters) informing 700 subscribers about new materials on the website. Such unique materials as the ROCOR foundational decree 9084 issued in Constantinople in December 1920, the reconstruction of the visits of ROCOR bishops to England in 1925, and newly uncovered facts about the Brotherhood of St. Job of Pochaev in the Third Reich, reflect the mission of this website: to “advance — in the words of Metropolitan Hilarion — the study of the history of the Russian Church Abroad.”

In 2025 I completed my thirteenth and final year of teaching at the Pastoral School of the Diocese of Chicago and Mid-America.

I also continued my thirtieth year of work at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary. I taught two undergraduate/graduate-level classes on the history of the Orthodox Church and on Canon Law, as well as a graduate seminar on ROCOR History. I also teach a correspondence course on Canon Law and serve as Director of Undergraduate Studies.

I continue to serve as a graduate thesis reader at the Antiochian House of Studies and