ST. SERGIUS ORTHODOX THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE

ST. SERGIUS ORTHODOX THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE. A graduate school of theology (q.v.) founded by Metropolitan Evlogii of Western Europe and staffed by perhaps the most distinguished faculty of scholars in recent Orthodox history, St. Sergius flourished from the late 1920s to just after World War II and produced a bibliography of published books and articles that runs to more than ninety pages. More than quantity characterized this extraordinary output. Many of the works produced at this institution still exert a powerful influence on contemporary Orthodox thought. Its professors-church historians such as Anton Kartashev and Georges Florovsky, liturgists such as Nikolai Afanasiev, the dogmatic theologian, Sergei Bulgakov (qq.v.)-continue to be read with attention both within and outside the Orthodox oikoumene (q.v.). The school still functions in Paris as the unique institute of higher learning maintained by the Orthodox Church in Western Europe.