ROCOR Chicago Pastoral School offering new catechist training program

Chicago, July 25, 2017

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The Pastoral School of the Diocese of Chicago and Mid-America of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR) will be offering a new catechist training program in the coming fall semester. The course is the first of its kind in English in the Russian Church, according to the official ROCOR site.

The program will be led by His Eminence Metropolitan Jonah, and fulfills the call of the Synod’s February 2013 session, at which the bishops called for the training of catechists, as well as new institutions to be created for this purpose. Students completing the course will be certified to prepare catechumens and their sponsors for Baptism, and those preparing for Marriage in the Church.

According to the school’s catalog,

The one-year Catechist Program consists of a cadre of students and mentor/instructors that utilize the e-Classroom for their course to cover topics important for catechists to master in order to successfully prepare candidates for baptism, baptism sponsors, and those who will be wed in the Church. Topics include, but are not limited to: the Holy Scriptures, Theology of the Orthodox Church, Orthodox Cosmology and Anthropology, Orthodox Soteriology and Ecclesiology, History of the Church, the Liturgical Life of the Church, Comparative Theology, Orthodox Family Life, the Mystery of Baptism, the Mystery of Marriage, as well as other pertinent topics.

Students who complete the one-year catechist program may then enroll in the second year courses of the Orthodox Studies major if desired.

The Pastoral School is also offerings its students a loan program this year. The school is now accepting applications for the coming fall semester, with a deadline of September 1. It is also accepting applications for needs-based and academic scholarships, with a deadline of August 15.

For more information, see the Orthodox Pastoral School’s site.

7/25/2017

Comments
Martin Sawo7/24/2019 12:20 pm
Re request for scho;larship to pursie Bachelor of Arts in Theology
Dear Servant of The Most High God,


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Thanks for te great work you are doing as you train God;s Servants to renew the minds of people to conform to Christ and transforming their hearts to know God sothat each may come to his senses & escape from satan and his tricks of enslaving them to do his will.
Am A Pastor of a small vibrant Church and writing from Nairobi, Kenya to inquire if you may sponsor me to come and study in your College to pursue the above mentioned Course to enhance my Ministry skills, knowledge.
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Thanks Pastor Martin Billy Sawo
Isidora7/26/2017 8:00 pm
I wonder if they will be using the same ecumenist catechism the MP is producing. Presumably so, given the synchronous announcements.
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