Position: Academic Collaborators

Prof. Michael Petrowycz received a doctoral degree in liturgy from the Sheptytsky Institute at Saint Paul University. He returned to Ukraine where he taught THO 2306 Selected Topics in Eastern Christian Liturgy/Sacraments I: Eucharistic Liturgies in the Ukrainian Church (Summer 2009) and THO 3328 The Holy Mysteries: Byzantine Sacraments at our program in Univ, Ukraine (Summer 2005).

Prof. Suzette Phillips is a doctoral student in the Eastern Christian Studies program at the Sheptytsky Institute and is also an occupational therapist. She taught THO 2137 Selected Topics in Eastern Christian Thought I; Healing in Eastern Christian Thought (Summer 2010), THO 2144 Selected Topics in Eastern Christian Spirituality I: A Contemporary Reading of The Way of a Pilgrim (Summer 2006, Summer 2010), and THO 2144 The Contemplative Psychology of Eastern Christian Spirituality (Winter 2004).

Prof. Nazari Polataiko is a protodeacon, a graduate of Kosiv Art School, and a master iconographer. He and his wife established the Ss. Alipij and Andrew Rublew Icon Studio in Canada in 1996. He taught THO 6392 Iconography and the Spiritual Tradition of Hesychasm: The History of Eastern Christian Institutions, Movements, Persons (Winter 2010).

Rev. Dr. Douglas LeClair is a priest of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Winnipeg. He holds a doctorate in Canon Law and has many years of experience in chancery and tribunals, the latter in both first instance and appellate. He is a published author of a number of articles and one book. He continues to serve as parish priest for a number of rural Manitoba parishes. He has taught THO 3323 Canonical Tradition of the Christian East (Fall 2008).

Bishop Hlib Lonchyna is a Studite hieromonk who completed his doctorate in liturgy at the Papal Urbanian University and at the Papal Oriental Institute in 2001. His field of expertise includes Byzantine-Slav liturgy and musicology as well as the Psalter. He taught in our summer program in Univ, Ukraine (1998). He was consecrated bishop in 2002.

Rev. Prof. Maxym Lysack is the pastor of Christ the Saviour Orthodox Mission in Ottawa and Chaplain at University of Ottawa. He was a sessional lecturer for THO 2181 Eastern Christian Spirituality (Winter 2001), THO 2130 Sources of Holy Tradition: Foundations of Eastern Christian Theology (Fall 2002), THO 2137 Selected Topics in Eastern Christian Thought I (Summer 2007), THO 3303 The Seven Ecumenical Councils in Eastern Christian Tradition (Winter 2012), THO 3318 Eastern Christian Spirituality (Fall 2003, Winter 2007, Summer 2009, Winter 2010, Fall 2012), and THO 6376/6359 Foundational Texts in Eastern Christian Spirituality (Winter 2011).

Prof. Jonas Maksim taught THO 2144 Selected Topics in Eastern Christian Spirituality I: The Distinctive Features of “Spiritual Theology” at our summer program in Univ, Ukraine (Summer 2009).

Prof. Robert Marko has a doctorate in theology from Duquesne University and is a professor of Theology at Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He taught THO 3324 Introduction to Eastern Christian Ethics at our summer program in Orangeville, Ontario (Summer 2004).

Prof. Mary Marrocco, has a Ph.D. from St. Michael’s College in Toronto and has been a sessional lecturer for THO 2130 Sources of Holy Tradition (Fall 1996), THO 2144 The Examples of Holy Persons as a Paradigm for Contemporary Work Among the Poor (Orangeville, Summer 2001), THO 6380 Patristic Theology: Patristic Texts on Holiness and Poverty (Winter 2003), and for THO 2144 Eastern Christian Spirituality: the Church Fathers (Winter 2005). Her field of expertise includes: systematic theology, divinization (theosis), Augustine and the appropriation of his thought in the East.

Prof. Volodymyr Mezentsev is a specialist in Ukrainian Christian archeology and has held three postdoctoral fellowships in North America. He taught THO 6387 Issues in Eastern Christian Liturgical History: Byzantine and Ukrainian Church Architecture (Winter 2000) and THO 2306 Byzantine and East Slavic Architecture in Ukraine (Summer 2000).