Position: Academic Collaborators

Prof. Adam Deville is a subdeacon of the Ukrainian Catholic Church and associate professor at University of Saint Francis as well as the editor of our journal, Logos, A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies. He received a PhD from Saint Paul University (Eastern Christian Studies) in 2008. He taught THO 3316 Ecclesiology and East-West Ecumenism (Summer 2010).

Prof. Heather Eaton has a Doctorate in Theology and Ecology from University of Saint Michael’s College in Toronto. She is a full professor in the Conflict Studies program at Saint Paul University and has taught one course at the Graduate level: THO 6352 Studies in Eastern Christianity/Spirituality: Methods; Relationships with the Human Sciences (Fall 2007).

Prof. Elias El-Hayek has a Doctorate in Utroque Iure from St. John Lateran University and has taught two courses at the graduate level: THO 6392 History of Eastern Christian Person: Ephraim the Syrian & Syraic Theology (Winter 2001), and THO 2186 Canonical Tradition of the Christian East (Winter 2003).

Prof. Andriy Fedun, the Rev. Monk Alipiy, taught THO 3310 Selected Topics in Eastern Christian Spirituality II: The Jesus Prayer – The History of its Development and Theology at our summer program in Univ, Ukraine (Summer 2010).

Gregory Bloomquist is a full professor in the Faculty of Theology at Saint Paul University in Ottawa and is a specialist on the Gospels, as well as Rhetoric (ancient and modern), Hellenistic Judaism and Greek.

Rev. Prof. Jobe Abbass is a full professor in the Faculty of Canon Law at Saint Paul University in Ottawa and is a specialist in Eastern and Comparative Canon Law. He taught THO 3323 Canonical Tradition of the Christian East (Fall 2005).

Rev. Prof. Taras Barscevki is a Ukrainian Catholic priest from Yugoslavia, and studied at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome. He has taught Scripture courses in our summer program in Univ, Ukraine (1998, 1999, 2003 and 2005).

Rev. Prof. Stefan Batruch was working on his Ph.D. in the area of spiritual theology and was administrator of the Ukrainian-Catholic Parish in Lublin, Poland while lecturing for two summers at Ukrainian Catholic University. He taught THO 2144 Selected Topics in Eastern Christian Spirituality: Spiritual Direction and Spiritual Renewal Movements (Summer 2001) and THO 2144 Selected Topics in Eastern Christian Spirituality: Liturgical Foundations of Eastern Christian Spirituality (Summer 2002).

Rev. Prof. François E. Beyrouti received a B.Th. in Eastern Christian Studies from the Sheptytsky Institute. He completed an M.A., L.Th., and Ph.D., in Theology (Biblical Studies) at Saint Paul University and is a Melkite Priest. He taught THO 6392 The History of Eastern Christian Institutions, Movements, Persons: The Eastern Catholic Churches at Vaticall II (Winter 2014), THO 3301 Hermeneutics and Exegesis in Eastern Christianity (Fall 2000 and Fall 2003).

Rev. Prof. Stephàne Bigham is an Orthodox priest, serving the francophone community in Montreal. He holds a Ph.D. in Theology from the University of Montreal. Prof. Bigham has taught THO 2134 The Seven Ecumenical Councils (Fall 1995) and THO 2181 Eastern Christian Spirituality (Fall 1997).