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).
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Faculty / Staff Members at the Sheptytsky Institute
Rev. Prof. Stephàne Bigham
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).
Rev. Prof. Ihor Boyko
Rev. Prof. Ihor Boyko received his D.Th.M. from the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome in the area of Moral Theology. He taught THO 2145 Selected Topics in the Moral Tradition of the Christian East 1: Bioethics in Eastern Christian Perspective in the Univ summer program (Summer 2007)
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Peter Galadza
Peter Galadza, a Ukrainian Greco-Catholic priest, was Kule Family Professor of Liturgy at the Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies. After completing his M.Div. at Chicago’s Catholic Theological Union in 1981, he was ordained to the presbyterate by Patriarch Josyf Slipyj and served in parishes until 1988, when he completed a M.A. in liturgy at the University of Notre Dame.
He went on to earn a Ph.D. in theology from the University of Saint Michael’s College in the University of Toronto. From 1994 to 2004 he edited Logos: A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies, and in 1997 became convener of the Eastern Liturgies Study Group of Societas Liturgica. During the 1999-2000 academic year, Fr. Galadza served as dean of the L’viv Theological Academy in Ukraine, for which he was awarded the jeweled pectoral cross by then bishop Lubomyr Husar.
In 2003-2004 he was a research fellow at Harvard University’s Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Research Center in Georgetown, Washington, DC. He is also editor-in-chief of the recently published “pew book,” The Divine Liturgy: An Anthology for Worship.
He retired from the University of St Michael’s College on June 30, 2020.
Alexander Laschuk
Father Alexander M. Laschuk, (Олександер М. Лящук) JCD, PhD, is Executive Director of the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute in addition to being Judicial Vicar of the Toronto Regional Tribunal. He completed his doctorate of canon law at Saint Paul University. Fr Alexander has experience in matrimonial, penal, and contentious trials across North America. He also is Judicial Vicar for the Eparchy of Toronto and Eastern Canada and parochial vicar at St Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church (Toronto). His research interests are ecclesiology, procedural law, penal law, and sacramental law.
He has taught the following courses at the University of St Michael’s College:
- Canonical Tradition of the Christian East
- Introduction to the Eastern Churches
He lives in Toronto with his wife Olena and his two children.
Andriy Chirovsky
Fr. Andriy was born in 1956 in New Jersey. He is the Founding Director of the Sheptytsky Institute and was the Peter and Doris Kule Professor of Eastern Christian Theology and Spirituality. He has a special interest in the spiritual life of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky, on whom he wrote his master’s and doctoral theses. Fr. Andriy was ordained a Ukrainian Catholic priest by the confessor of faith Patriarch Josyf Slipyj in Castelgandolfo, in 1980, and elevated to the rank of Mitred Archpriest in August, 2005. He is married to Halyna (Pawlyshyn), and they have two children, Sophia and Alexander. On November 26, 2005 Fr. Andriy was elevated to Archpriest.
Daniel Galadza
Daniel Galadza was assistant professor at the Chair of Liturgical Studies and Sacramental Theology of the Catholic Theology Faculty in the University of Vienna from 2013 to 2018. He is currently international research partner at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and a member of the Patriarchal Liturgical Commission in Kyiv. Dr. Galadza’s research focuses on the historical development of liturgy, particularly the Byzantine Rite, as well as modern and contemporary Orthodox and Eastern Catholic worship and church singing. He is a deacon of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Kyiv.
His first major monograph Liturgy and Byzantinization in Jerusalem, was published by Oxford University Press in 2018.
Brian Butcher
Brian A. Butcher has taught for the Institute for the past seven years; at Saint Paul University in Ottawa, as Assistant Professor, he offered courses in both Eastern and Western Christian traditions. His first major monograph has recently been published with Fordham University Press: Liturgical Theology After Schmemann: An Orthodox Reading of Paul Ricoeur. Other publications of note include a chapter on “Orthodox sacramental theology in the 16-19th centuries,” in the Oxford Handbook of Sacramental Theology (OUP, 2015).
Dr. Butcher also lectures at Ottawa’s Augustine College. His professional associations include membership in the American Academy of Religion, the Society of Oriental Liturgy and the North American Academy of Liturgy. He is a subdeacon in the Ukrainian Greco-Catholic Church.