USSR CHURCH SCHOOLS BEGIN 1951 - 1952 ENROLLMENT

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• Publication Date: December 11, 1951
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CLASSIFICATION RESTRICL D ~1
SECURITY INFORW . RESTRICHo
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCf 11 R
INFORMATION FROM
F(A,EIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY
US9t;
DATE OF
INFORMATION
1950 - 1951
SUBJECT
Political, S.)ciological - Education of Clergy
HOW
DATE DIST.
II Dec 1951
PUBLISHED
Monthly periodical
WHERE
PUBLISHED
Moscow
NO. OF PAGES 3
DATE
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Jul 1950 - May 1951
LANGUAGE
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The councils of the Moscow and Leningrad ecclesiastical academies and
seminaries have announced the beginning of enrollment for the 1951 - 1952
school year. The course of training at both academies and seminaries is 4
Ecclesiastical Academies
N The Moscow and Leningrad ecclesiastical academies accept persons 18-50
years of age, with completed secondary education, who can pass examinations in:
the Cld Testament, New Testament, Dogmatic Theology, MIral Theology, Fundamental
Theology, Comparative Theology, Liturgy, Christian Church History, Russian Church
History, Homiletics, History and Analysis of Schisms and Sectarianism, Practical
Administratir,n for Priests, USSR Constitution, Greek and Latin, and a modern
language.
First category graduates (honor students) of ecclesiastical seminaries
'.asiring to enroll in the academies must ta._e oral examinations in the New Testa-
ment, Dogmatic Theology,, and General Church History to 1054, must write a sermon,
and take a written examination in Fundamental Theology. Second category gradu-
ates, to be eligible for enrollment, must first take re-examinations at their
seminaries in those subjects in which they received unsatisfactory grades.
Rrrlesiastical Se nariea.
The Moscow and Leningrad ecclesiastical seminaries accept persons 18-40
years or age, who have comp&ted the seventh grade. Applicants are given exam-
inations in their knowledge of the.following prayers: ~l) Opening Prayers:
"Glory to Thee, Our God, Glpry to Thee," "Heavenly King." "Holy God," '"Blessed
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Trinity," "C?r Father," "Come, Let us Worship"; (2) Morning Prayers: "From Sleep
Awakened," "T Thee, 0 Master, 'dho Loves Mankind," "0 Gad, Cleanse Me, a Sinner,"
"Guardian Angel"; (3) Evenin3 Prayers: "Lord, Our God," "Eternal God," "All-
embracing, the Word of the Father," "Lord, heavenly King, Comforter," "Guardian
Angel"; (4) To the Mc--er of God: "Virgin Mother, Rejoice," "Worthy Art Thou,"
"Our Chosen Master"; plus the Praye, St. Yefrem Sirin, the prayer prior to
Holy Communion, 'the Credo, the Ten Commandments, the Commandments of Ble:-'edness,
songs of the 12 principal Orthodox Church holidays, songs to one's patron saint,
and Psalms 50 and 90.
In addition, applicants are required to have a reading knowled:.e of Church
Slavonic, and must be able to write Russian fluently.
Persons desiring to enter second-, third-, or fourth-year classes at the
Moscow Seminary :must have a tenth-grade education and must be able to pass all
examinations required of graduates of the previous classes. At the Leningrad
Seminary, persons are permitted to enter third-year classes if they have a tenth-
grade education and are able to pass examinatiorsin: Bible History of both Old
and New Testaments; the Holy Scriptures of boa'- :d and New Testaments; Catechism;
Church Regulations; Ancient Christian Churc. . "; Russian Church History;
Church Slavonic; Russian; USSR Constitution; and _...-ch Singing.
Applicants for enrollment in both academies and seminaries must present
the following documents: (1) application; (2) completed questionnaire, includ-
ing name, date of birth, social status, education, family status -- bachelor,
first or second marriage, whether divorced (underlined), number and ages of
children or family depeadents, draft status, police record, place of employment
and duties, home address, date questionnaire was filled out, signature, and two
photographs; (3) birth certificate; (4) record of education; (5) doctor's certi-
ficate on state of health; (6) record of family status; (7) autobiography;
(8) a letter of recommendation from a parish priest or bishopric, or, if a grad-
uate of a seminary, a letter of recommendation from the seminary council; (9)
record of draft status. Applications must be sent before 15 August 1951 to the
Moscow Ecclesiastical Academy and Seminary, Zagorsk, Moscow Oblast, Troitse
Sergiyeva Monastery, or to the Leningrad Ecclesiastical Academy and Seminary,
Leningraa, 167, Obvodnyy kanal, 17. Entrance examinations will be given from
14 to 21 August, with instruction beginning 1 September 1951.
All students enrolled will be provided with stipends. The Moscow Academy
and Seminary both provide students with living quarters, while living quarters
at the Leningrad Academy and Seminary are provided only for out-of-town students.(1)
Zhurnal Moskovskoy Patriarkhii, which is the official publication of the
Moscow Patriarchate and represents the entire Russian Orthodox Church, did not
mention enrollment in any of tho other church schools, including the Volyd',
Stavropol', Kiev, Saratov, Odessa, and Minsk ecclesiastical seminaries, all of
which had been identified during the past year in that periodical.
During the 1949 - 1550 school year, the Moscow Ecclesiastical Academy and
Seminary had a combined enrollment of 184 students. At the end of that school
year, six students were graduated from the academy and 38 from the seminary.(2)
Of the 38 seminary graduates, 14 applied for admission to the academy for the
1950 - 1951 school year, while the remainder were assigned to parishes.(3) At
that time, the academy and the seminary had a combined staff of a rector, an
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inspector, sir_ professors, four docents, and six instructors.(2) The Academy
and Seminary have been without a rector since the death, in October 1950, of
the Very Reverend A. P. Smirnov, who took over that post on 15 August 1949.(4)
The Leningrad Ecclesiastical Academy and Seminary, during the 1949 - 1950
school year, had a total of 172 students. Seven students were graduated
year.
the academy and 14 from the seminary at the end of the 1949 1950
The teaching staff then included a rector, an inspector, three professors, ten
docents and five instructors.(2) The present rector is Simeon, Bishop of
Lvga.(5)
The Volyn' Ecclesiastical Semin.::Y, Orel Oblast, ccmpleted its fifth year
of operation on 7 June 1950. The seminary graduated 16 students at the end of
the 1949 - 195 school year, according to its rector, N. Tuchemskiy.
The Stavropol' Ecclesiastical Seminary graduated its first 4-year class in
June 1950. (No figures were given as to number of graduates.) The rector of
the seminary is I. Bogdanovich.(6)
The Kiev Ecclesiastical Seminary also '--d its first 4-year class
atthe end of the 1949 - 1950 school year, but asi- from a statement that
none of its students had failed at the end of the school ye,-x, no figures
were given as to the number of graduates.(7)
No statistical information is available on the Saratov, Odessa, and
Minsk ecclesiastical seminaries, all identified in Zhurnal Moskovskoy Patriarkhii
during the past year. It is known that the present
Very Reverend Saratov
now
Ecclesiastical Seminary is Ioann Sokal'.(3) The y orrroefndd h V. took Kremlev
over is upon
the acting rector of the Odessa Ecclesie-.ical Seminary.
the death of the Very Reverend Ye. P. D yakonov, who died in April 1951.(4) The
Minsk Ecclesiastical Seminary was organized in 1945?(5)
SOURCES
1. Moscow, Zhurnal Moskovskoy Patriarkhii, No 5, May 51
2. Ibid., No 11, Nov 50
3. Ibid., No 8, Aug 50
4. Ibid., No 10, Oct 50
5. Ibid., No 3, Mar 51
6. Ibid., No 7, Jul 50
7. Ibid., No 9, Sep 50
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