Speaker: Archimandrite Dr Cyril Hovorun, Postgraduate School of the Russian Orthodox Church
Organized by the Russian Center at USJ

About the talk
In his lecture, Archimandrite Cyril presents a history of how the sacred spaces of the Eastern Christianity were shaped and organized. The lecture covers geography from the Greek islands and Constantinople to Kiev and Moscow, and follows the timeline from the 2nd to the 20th centuries. Major types of the Orthodox Christian architecture are presented through the slideshow. Key theological and philosophical ideas behind the architectural forms are explained.

About the speaker
Born in 1974, in Ukraine, Archimandrite Dr Cyril Hovorun studied Theology in Kiev and Athens, and got his PhD in Theology with the University of Durham (UK), in 2003. He was ordained priest in 2006 and tonsored monk with name Cyril the following year. Dr Cyril headed the external Church relations of the Ukranian Orthodox Church while teaching Patrology at the Theological Academy of Kiev (2007-09). Since 2009, Archimandrite Dr Cyril Hovorun is the deputy chair of the comittee for education of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) and chair of Theology at the All-Church post-graduate school of the ROC.