Prof. Lucian Turcescu, is a Romanian Orthodox layman, He was a Ph.D. Candidate at St. Michael’s College in Toronto while teaching THO 2137 Selected Topics in Eastern Christian Thought: Ecclesiology (Fall 1996).
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Faculty / Staff Members at the Sheptytsky Institute
Rev. Prof. Stephen Wojcichowsky
Rev. Prof. Stephen Wojcichowsky was the Director of the Sheptytsky Institute from 2007 to 2013. He taught various courses during his time at MASI including: THO 3314 Selected Topics in Moral Theology from Eastern & Western Perspectives (Winter 2011) and THO 3324 Introduction to Eastern Christian Ethics at Study Days in Edmonton (Summer 2010).
Prof. Taras Tymo
Prof. Taras Tymo is a graduate of Ukrainian Catholic University and University of Notre Dame and has received an SThL. He taught THO 3325 Theology and Spirituality of Icons: Eastern Christian Theology of Icons – An Introduction at our summer program in Univ, Ukraine (Summer 2013).
Rev. Prof. Gregory Zubacz
Rev. Prof. Gregory Zubacz has a doctorate in Canon Law from Saint Paul University. He is also a civil lawyer. He taught THO 2309 Selected Topics in the Eastern Christian Canonical TraditionMonastic and Religious Canons of the Eastern Code of Canon Law at the summer program in Orangeville (Summer 2003) and THO 2309 Selected Topics in the Eastern Christian Canonical Tradition: Marriage (Fall 2004).
Prof. Roman Zaviyskyy
Prof. Roman Zaviyskyy studied at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and taught THO 2197 The Historical Development of Trinitarian Doctrine: An Eastern Christian Perspective in the summer program at Ukrainian Catholic University (Summer 2003).
Prof. Hieromonk Leonty
Prof. Hieromonk Leonty, Aliaksandr Tumouski, taught THO 2138 Selected Topics in Eastern Christian History I: “Early Christian Monasticism: Origins and Developments” at our summer program in Univ, Ukraine, (Summer 2012).
Prof. Andrew Sorokowski
Prof. Andrew Sorokowski received his Ph.D. from the University of London School of Slavonic and East European Studies in 1991. He taught THO 2138 Eastern Christian History at the summer program in Univ, Ukraine (Summer 2000).
Prof. Halyna Teslyuk
Prof. Halyna Teslyuk is studying biblical studies at the Graduate Theological Union in California. She taught THO 2144 Selected Topics in Eastern Christian Spirituality 1: Theological and Liturgical Aspects of Biblical Prayer [Selected Topics in Eastern Christian Spirituality I: Prayer in the Bible] in the summer program in Ukraine (Summer 2008).
Prof. Horia Roscanu
Prof. Horia Roscanu taught THO 2131 General Introduction to the Eastern Churches (Winter 1996, Winter 1998, Fall 2001) as well as THO 2149 Ecclesiology and East-West Ecumenism (Fall 1999) while he was a doctoral candidate.
Prof. Jaroslav Skira
Prof. Jaroslav Skira holds a Ph.D. from Saint Michael’s College in Toronto. He specializes in contemporary Orthodox systematics (particularly Trinitarian theology) and Eastern Christian ecclesiology. He has been a sessional lecturer in our summer program in Univ, Ukraine: THO 2130 Sources of Holy Tradition (Summer 1996) and THO 2182 Eastern Christian Doctrine: Triadology, Christology and Pneumatology (Summer 1997). He also taught THO 2198 Ecclesiology in East and West in our summer intensive program in Orangeville, Ontario (Summer 2000).