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The Kiev Theological Academy (1819—1919) was one of the oldest higher educational institution of the Russian Orthodox Church , situated in Kiev , then in the Russian Empire (now Kyiv , Ukraine ). It was considered as the most senior one among similar academies in Moscow , Saint Petersburg , and Kazan . It was located at the Kiev Podol within the Kiev Epiphany Monastery. In the Russian historiography, the Academy′s predecessor was the Academia Mohileana that was founded earlier in the 17th century.

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16-838: The Kiev Theological Academy traces its history back to 1615, when Yelisey Pletenetsky founded a school at the Brotherhood Monastery in Kiev. Several decades later, Peter Mohyla , from 1632 an Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev under the Patriarchate of Constantinople , merged it with a newly established Lavra school into the Mohyla Collegium (Latin: Collegium Kijovense Mohileanum). The Collegium alumni include Innokentiy Gizel , Lazar Baranovych , Dmitry Tuptalo , Stephen Yavorsky , Feofan Prokopovich and many other state activists and Orthodox clerics who helped reform

32-520: A direct jurisdiction of the patriarch, was present at least since the reign of Byzantine Emperor Maurice (582-602). Such exemptions became more common after the Council of Constantinople (861). In time, those practices included not only monasteries, but also various parochial churches, to the extent that authorities had to regulate the issue by imposing stricter criteria for the creation of such exemptions. Stauropegic monasteries are distinguished from

48-860: A later period. An attempt to open the Kiev Orthodox Theological Academy within the walls of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra was made after the Second World War in 1947. The academy was revived in 1992 and is based on the grounds of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra . (The main cathedral of the Brotherhood Monastery was destroyed in 1935 by the Soviet authorities). Upon the closure of the Kiev Theological Academy, its quarters were passed to

64-479: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Stauropegion A stauropegion , also spelled stavropegion (from Greek : σταυροπήγιον from σταυρός stauros "cross" and πήγνυμι pegnumi "to affirm"), is a monastery or a parish which depends directly on the primate or on the Holy Synod of a particular Church, and which is not under the jurisdiction of the local bishop . The name comes from

80-725: The Byzantine tradition of summoning the Patriarch to place a cross at the foundation of stauropegic monasteries or parochial churches . Such exempt jurisdictions, both monastic and parochial, are common in Eastern Christianity , mainly in Eastern Orthodox Churches , but also in some Eastern Catholic Churches . Their institutional counterparts in the Latin Church ecclesiastical order of

96-595: The Catholic Church are various exempt jurisdictions , such as monasteries that are directly subjected to the Holy See of Rome . A stauropegic monastery, also rendered "stavropegic", "stauropegial" or "stavropegial", is an Eastern Orthodox or Eastern Catholic Christian monastery , subordinated directly to a primate or Synod , rather than to a local Bishop . The practice of exempting some monasteries from jurisdictions of local bishops, placing them under

112-847: The Russian Orthodox Church operates the Kiev Theological Academy in the Kiev Pechersk Lavra . The Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate has the Kyiv Orthodox Theological Academy  [ uk ] in the Golden-Domed Monastery in Kyiv. The National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy is a secular educational institution. in Ukraine . Yelisey Pletenetsky Yelysei Pletenetskyi , or Yelysei Pletenetsky (1550 – 29 October 1624), also known as Elizeusz Pletenecki ,

128-725: The Russian Orthodox Church under the auspices of Patriarch Nikon and Peter the Great . In 1658 under the terms of the Treaty of Hadiach the Collegium obtained the status of an Academy, similar to Kraków Academy . This was recognized in 1694 by the Russian tsar Ivan V , then reaffirmed by Peter I in 1701, when it became the Mohyla Academy. The Mohyla Academy was closed in 1817 by the decree of Alexander I of Russia . In 1819,

144-733: The Bulgarian Patriarch and Synod. Several major Serbian Orthodox monasteries had special status in Middle Ages. Today, the Serbian Orthodox Church has two stauropegic monasteries: The first stauropegic monastery in the Russian Orthodox Church was Simonov Monastery (1383). It was subordinated directly to the Ecumenical Patriarch , because it was founded by Greeks and was home to the patriarch during his visits to Moscow . In 1561 Ivan

160-599: The Kiev Theological Academy, an ecclesiastical educational institution, was opened in the Brotherhood Monastery. In contrast to its predecessor, the Mohyla Academy, like all similar establishments in Russia at the time the Kiev Theological Academy admitted sons of clergy only. The Kiev Theological Academy continued under this name until its closure by the Soviets in 1919. Some unofficial courses were held even at

176-817: The Russian Orthodox Church: Monasteries of Moscow : Monasteries of Central Russia: Monasteries of North-Western Russia: Monasteries outside Russia: A stauropegial monastery ( monasterium stauropegiaceum ) under patriarchal jurisdiction ( monasterium iuris patriarchalis ) is a monastery that is subject directly to the patriarch (can. 434 Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches). Monasteries in Ukraine: Stauropegic parishes in Eastern Orthodoxy are exempt parishes that are not under jurisdiction of

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192-727: The Soviet's Red Army Dnieper Flotilla staff headquarters. After the Second World War the Kiev Theological Seminary was opened in 1947. It situated in the Kiev Golden-Domed Monastery (1947 - 1949) and in the stylobate of St Andrew's Church in Kiev (1949 - 1960). Since the 1990s, there are three educational establishments in Ukraine that claim to be successors to the Kiev Mohyla Academy. The Ukrainian branch of

208-712: The Terrible decreed that the following seven monasteries should precede all the rest: After the establishment of the Patriarchate in Moscow , there were no stauropegic monasteries subordinated directly to the Patriarch for some time. But Nikon founded the New Jerusalem Monastery , Valday Iversky Monastery , and Kiy Island Monastery , which he governed himself, instead of placing each under an hegumen (abbot). The Greek custom, first introduced by Nikon,

224-550: The greatest monasteries, called lavras , and from the patriarchal metochions , where the patriarch serves as a parish priest. The metochions of the Patriarch of Moscow are the Vysokopetrovsky Monastery and Nikolo-Perervinsky Monastery . The Bulgarian Orthodox Church has three stauropegic monasteries: The Alexander Nevsky Cathedral and the Sofia Seminary are also directly subordinate to

240-540: Was a Ukrainian archimandrite . He served as archimandrite of a monastery in the Pinsk region from 1595 to 1599, and of Kyiv Pechersk Lavra from 1599 until his death. During the latter tenure he worked hard at reforming the monastery, and secured the right of stauropegion for it. He established a hospital for the poor, a printing house, and the Radomysl paper mill . This Eastern Orthodox Christianity –related article

256-491: Was continued by other Patriarchs and by the Holy Governing Synod . Stauropegic houses were not always the most important monasteries, the holiest, the richest, or the largest. They might have been dear to the ruling Patriarch for personal reasons. In the 19th century, apart from four lavras , seven monasteries were considered stauropegial: As of 2000 , the following monasteries were recognized as stauropegial by

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