Position: Academic Collaborators

Prof. Yakiv Krekhovetsky specializes in Pneumatology, Faith and Science, Byzantine and East-Slavic iconography. He taught THO 2196 The Theology and Spirituality of Icons at our summer program in Univ, Ukraine (Summer 1999).

Prof. Danylo Kuc is a doctoral student in the Eastern Christian Studies program here at the Sheptytsky Institute. He taught THO 3322 Byzantine Eucharistic Liturgies (Winter 2004).

Rev. Prof. Ihor Kutash is a Ukrainian Orthodox priest from the Montreal area. He has a doctorate from McGill University and specializes in Eastern Orthodox ethics and 18th century East-Slavic philosophy. He taught THO 2119 Selected Topics in the Practice of the Church I: Eastern Christian Pastoral Theology (Winter 2013), THO 2130 Sources of Holy Tradition (Fall 1998, Winter 2001), THO 2149 East-West Ecumenism and Ecclesiology (Fall 2002), THO 6392 The History of Eastern Christian Institutions, Movements, Persons: Hyrhorii Skovoroda: A Secular Monk (Jan. 2004), THO 3308 Patristic Moral Tradition (Winter 2005, Fall 2007, Fall 2010, Fall 2013), THO 3309 Contemporary Moral Issues in Eastern Theology (Winter 2009), and THO 3324 Introduction to Eastern Christian Ethics (Winter 2010).

Prof. Barbara Frank is a doctoral candidate in the interdisciplinary field of bioethics at the Université de Montréal and was the lecturer for THO 3309 Contemporary Moral Issues in Eastern Theology (Fall 2005).

Bishop Borys Gudziak received a degree in theology from Rome’s Urbaniana University in 1983 and then returned to America, where he earned a doctorate in Slavic and Byzantine Cultural History from Harvard University in 1992. In 1995 he received a licentiate degree in Eastern theology from the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome. He taught in 1992 and 1995 at the Mount Tabor summer program in California.

Prof. Verna Harrison has a Doctorate in Historical Theology from Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley CA, and was sessional lecturer for THO 2133 Early Christian Interpretation of Psalms (Winter 2002).

Rev. Prof. Michael Hryniuk has a Doctorate from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia and taught THO 2144 Selected Topics in Eastern Christian Spirituality: Faith Development and Christian Identity, at our summer program in Ottawa (Summer 2005).

Rev. Prof. Robert A. Hutcheon is a medical doctor and was the first student to complete a doctorate in Eastern Christian Theology at the Sheptytsky Institute. He has since returned to teach THO 6381 Contemporary Eastern Theology: Health and Healing in the Byzantine Tradition.

Rev. Prof. Yuriy Bokyo did doctoral studies at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome and was a professor in the summer program at Ukrainian Catholic University teaching THO 2197 Selected Topics in Eastern Christian Doctrinal Tradition 1: Credo – the Historical Context and Theological Articulation of the Creed (Summer 2007).

Prof. Catherine Clifford is a full professor and the Director of the Graduate Studies in the Faculty of Theology of Saint Paul University who received her doctoral degree in theology from University of Saint Michael’s College in Toronto, Ontario. She taught THO 6350 Contemporary Theology I: Vatican II: Did Anything Happen? (Winter 2010).