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Religion and Church in Russia today

19 Oct 2010

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Talk | Religion and Church in Russia today by Hugh Wybrew

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PUSHKIN CLUB PROGRAMME Language: In English Gorbachev's policy of ‘glasnost' and ‘perestroika' affected religion no less than other aspects of Soviet life. Tolerance replaced persecution, and the collapse of the Soviet Union brought about still greater change. In Russia the chief beneficiary has been the Russian Orthodox Church, which now enjoys a privileged position in the Russian state and in Russian society. But that has brought with it tensions within the church and between the church and other aspects of society, as well as problems for other churches in Russia. Canon Wybrew speaks about the Church's transformed situation and important aspects, both positive and negative, of its present life and activity. Hugh Wybrew's interest in Russia and the Russian Orthodox Church goes back to National Service, most of which he spent learning Russian. After graduating in theology from Oxford, he spent a year at the Russian Orthodox Theological Institute of St Sergius in Paris. His first visit to Russia was in 1963, when he went as chaplain to the Bishop of Winchester for the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Patriarch Alexis I's consecration as a bishop. In 1974 he was made a member of the Anglican/Orthodox Joint Doctrinal Discussions, and served on the Anglican-Orthodox theological dialogue until 2007. Most of his priestly ministry has been spent in parishes, though he taught for six years at St Stephen's House in Oxford, spent two years as Anglican chaplain in Romania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia 1971 — 1973, and three years as Dean of St George's Anglican Cathedral in Jerusalem. Now retired as a parish priest, he still lives in Oxford, and have close links with the Orthodox parishes there, as well as with the Fellowship of St Alban and St Sergius.

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