
Cyril Hovorun
Professor of Ecclesiology, International Relations and Ecumenism
E-Mail cyril.hovorun@ehs.se
Professor of Ecclesiology, International Relations and Ecumenism, Archimandrite
Archimandrite Cyril Hovorun is originally from Ukraine, where he first began his studies in theoretical physics before moving to the study of theology at the theological seminary and academy in Kyiv. He continued theological education at the National and Kapodistiran University of Athens and Durham University in the United Kingdom, where he defended his PhD under the supervision of Prof Fr Andrew Louth. The topic of his thesis was related to the post-Chalcedonian Christology.
Fr. Hovorun taught theology in a number of confessional and public institutions, including theological academies in Kyiv, Moscow, Minsk, National University “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” in Kyiv, Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, and others. He was a research fellow at Yale and Columbia Universities in the United States, a visiting professor at the University of Münster and international fellow at Chester Ronning Centre for the Study of Religion and Public Life at the University of Alberta in Canada. He has been invited to lecture in over fifty institutions globally, including University of Heidelberg (Germany), Vrije Universiteit (Amsterdam), University of Oxford, Chinese University of Hong Kong, St Joseph University (Macau), Taiwan Theological College and Seminary, Peking University (China), Princeton Theological Seminary, University of Manitoba (Canada), Harvard University, Yale University, University of Munich, University of Iceland, Columbia University, University of Toronto, Myanmar Institute of Theology, University of Eastern Karelia (Finland), LCC International University (Lithuania), Institute of Philosophy and Social Theory (Serbia), Dartmouth College (USA), and others.
He holds membership of a number of professional associations, including American Academy of Religion, European Academy of Religion, Association for the Sociology of Religion, International Association of Patristic Studies, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, North American Patristics Society, International Academic Forum (IAFOR) in Japan, Ukrainian Patristic Society (as its president since 2019), Research Network for New Directions in the Humanities, International Society for Neoplatonic Studies.
Selected list of books:
- Sacred Architecture in East and West (edited, Los Angeles: Tsehai, 2019);
- Political Orthodoxies: The Unorthodoxies of the Church Coerced (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2018; Ukrainian translation published in 2019);
- Ukrainian Public Theology (Kyiv: Dukh і Litera, 2017, in Ukrainian),
- Scaffolds of the Church: Towards Poststructural Ecclesiology (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2017; Ukrainian translation published in 2018);
- Wonders of the Panorthodox Council, (Moscow: Christian Book Club, 2016, in Russian);
- Meta-Ecclesiology, Chronicles on Church Awareness, (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015; Ukrainian translation published in 2017);
- From Antioch to Xi’an: an Evolution of ‘Nestorianism’ (Hong Kong: Chinese Orthodox Press, 2014, in Chinese);
- Will, Action and Freedom. Christological Controversies in the Seventh Century (Leiden – Boston: Brill, 2008).
Books
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Hovorun, Cyril, 2022. Eastern Christianity in Its Texts. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
Articles
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Hovorun, Cyril, 2023. Gespalten, verblendet, feige. In: Publik-Forum S. 17-18.
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Hovorun, Cyril, 2023. Religione civile e ortodossia politica: la Chiesa russa e la guerra in Ucraina. In: Religioni e Società 37. 104. S. 19-27.
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Hovorun, Cyril, 2023. Russian Church and Ukrainian War. In: Theological Reflections: Eastern European Journal of Theology 20. 2. S. 37-44.
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Hovorun, Cyril, 2022. Cooking the Snake of Secularization. In: Jacob's Well S. 22-25.
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Hovorun, Cyril, 2022. COVID-19 and the Russian Orthodox Church. In: Euxeinos 12. 33. S. 29-36.
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Hovorun, Cyril, 2022. For the Life of the World and Orthodox Political Theology. In: Theology Today 78. 4. S. 347-356.
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Hovorun, Cyril, 2022. Kirills tidlegare rådgjevar: Kyrkja må angre på krigsstøtta. In: Strek: sentralstimulerende magasin : tro, aktualitet, rotfeste 3. S. 23-25.
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Hovorun, Cyril, 2022. Russian Church and Ukrainian War. In: Expository times S. 1-10.
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Hovorun, Cyril, 2022. Ryska ortodoxa kyrkan och kriget i Ukraina. In: Svensk kyrkotidning 8. S. 225-229.
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Hovorun, Cyril, 2022. Severus of Antioch as Theologian and Ideologist: Towards His More Ecumenical Evaluation. In: Religious Studies and Theology 41. 1. S. 5-23.
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Hovorun, Cyril, 2022. Ukraińska teologia publiczna kontra teologia polityczna świata rosyjskiego. In: Czterdzieści i Cztery: 44 13. S. 41-57.
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Hovorun, Cyril, 2022. Патристика после неопатристике. In: Глас епархиjе нишке 25. 3. S. 5-9.
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Hovorun, Cyril, 2021. “COVID Theology”, or the “Significant Storm” of the Coronavirus Pandemic. In: STATE, RELIGION AND CHURCH in Russia and Worldwide 39. 1. S. 58-75.
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Hovorun, Cyril, 2021. “Covid Theology,” or the “Significant Storm” of the Coronavirus Pandemic. In: State, religion and church 8. 2. S. 20-33.
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Hovorun, Cyril, 2021. Die Russische Orthodoxe Kirche und ihre „Covid-dissidenten“. In: Religion und Gesellschaft in Ost und West 3. S. 27-29.
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Hovorun, Cyril, 2021. In Memoriam. Hans Küng (1928-2021). In: Review of Ecumenical Studies 13. 2. S. 376-378.
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Hovorun, Cyril, 2021. The Figure of Socrates in the Early Patristic Culture Wars. In: Studia patristica 20. S. 165-171.
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Hovorun, Cyril, 2020. Estic esperançat que tard o d’hora podrem arribar a la unió amb l’Església. In: Catalunya Cristiana XLI. 2114. S. 47-47.
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Hovorun, Cyril, 2020. Habermas, Eco, Berger e la fede post-secolare. In: L'Avvenire
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Hovorun, Cyril, 2020. Nation-Building Versus Nationalism: Difficult Dilemmas for the Church. In: Icoana Credintei 6. 11. S. 5-16.
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Hovorun, Cyril, 2020. Patristics and Sociolinguistics. In: Scrinium 16. 1. S. 20-29.
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Hovorun, Cyril, 2020. Ukrainische Autokephalie als Sorge um die Menschen. In: Religion und Gesellschaft in Ost und West 1. S. 6-8.
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Hovorun, Cyril, 2020. Via Tertia for the Orthodox Churches. In: International Journal of Public Theology 14. 3. S. 336-354.
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Hovorun, Cyril, 2020. War and Autocephaly in Ukraine. In: Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal 7. S. 1-25.
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Hovorun, Cyril, 2020. Две значения на свободата в източната патристична традиция: [Two meanings of freedom in the original patristic tradition]. In: Християнство и култура [Christianity and Culture] 156. 9. S. 65-76.
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Hovorun, Cyril, 2020. Добрі і лихі богословські плоди пандемії [Good and evil fruits of the pandemic]. In: Sophia: the Herald of Humanitarian and Religious Studies 2. S. 9-13.
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Hovorun, Cyril, 2020. Ἡ ἐκκλησιαστικὴ διασπορὰ μεταξὺ ἐδαφικότητας καὶ ἐθνικότητας [Church Diaspora between Territoriality and Nationality]. In: Synax? 154. S. 44-48.
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Hovorun, Cyril, 2019. Anastasius of Sinai and His Participation in the Monothelite Controversy. In: Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses 95. 3. S. 505-527.
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Hovorun, Cyril, 2019. De verhouding tussen Kerk en Staat in Rusland. In: Pokrof. Oosterse christenen, kerken en culturen 66. 5. S. 19-22.
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Hovorun, Cyril, 2019. Der Horos von 1755 und die Wiedertaufe in der Orthodoxen Kirche. In: Ökumenische Rundschau 68. 4. S. 496-513.
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Hovorun, Cyril, 2019. Die polyphone Theologie der Kirchenväter. Der Beitrag des Johannes von Damaskus. In: Evangelische Theologie 79. 5. S. 393-401.
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Hovorun, Cyril, 2019. Ein Riss innerhalb der globalen Orthodoxie. In: Una Sancta 74. 2. S. 104-113.
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Hovorun, Cyril, 2019. Patristics and Sociolinguistics. In: Scrinium Advanced Articles. S. 1-10.
Book Chapters
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2023. Soviet Political Religion. In: DeVille, Adam & Daniel Galadza (eds.), The Lviv “Sobor of 1946” and Its Aftermath: Towards Truth and Reconciliation. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. S. 37-48.
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2023. Икономија / Домострој. In: Родольюб Кубат (ed.), Лексикон библиjске херментеутике. Београд: Службени гласник. S. 246-248.
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2022. Is Scholasticism a Pseudomorphosis? A Polemical Note on Georges Florovsky’s Political Theology. In: Hans-Peter Grosshans & Pantelis Kalaitzidis (eds.), Politics, Society and Culture in Orthodox Theology in a Global Age. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. S. 44-57.
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2022. The Issue of Unia in Relations between Moscow and Constantinople. In: Skira J.Z., De Mey P., Teule H.G.B. (eds.), The Catholic Church and its Orthodox Sister Churches: Twenty-Five Years after Balamand. Leuven: Peeters Publishers. S. 119-130.
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2022. Theological Episteme and Paideia: The Teaching of Theology in Academia. In: Theresia de Vroom (ed.), Teach Your Children Well: Essays on the Road to Teaching and Learning. Los Angeles: Marymount Institute Press. S. 107-114.
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2021. Eastern Christianity and Meditation. In: Farias, Miguel, David Brazier & Mansur Lalljee (eds.), The Oxford handbook of meditation. Oxford: Oxford University Press. S. 163-180.
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2021. Imago Dei, imago Trinitatis, and imago Christi according to Anastasius Sinaita. In: Theresia Hainthaler, Franz Mali, Gregor Emmenegger & Alexey Morozov (eds.), Imago Dei. Forscher aus dem Osten und Westen Europas an den Quellen des gemeinsamen Glaubens. Innsbruck: Tyrolia. S. 395-402.
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2021. Агапи як альтернатива Євхаристії онлайн (Agape as an alternative to the online Eucharist). In: Tetiana Derkach (ed.), Феномен онлайн-причастя (Phenomenon of the Online Eucharist): Reflections. Polemics. Perspectives. Kyiv: Фонд пам’яті Блаженнішого митрополита Володимира. S. 96-101.
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2020. COVID-19, Eucharist, Christian (?) Dualism and the Deadly Orthodox Fundamentalism. In: Petros Vassiliadis & George Demacopoulos (eds.), The Church in a Period of Pandemic: Can the Present Pandemic Crisis Become a Meaningful Storm for Renewal in Our Churches?. Thessaloniki: CEMES. S. 159-164.
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2020. Fundamentalism in Eastern Christianity. In: Alexei Bodrov; Stephen M. Garrett (ed.), Theology and the Political: Theo-political Reflections on Contemporary Politics in Ecumenical Conversation. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. S. 128-144.
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2020. Philokalia: From a Manuscript to a Movement. In: Patricia Andrea Cinger & José Antonio Carrascosa Fuentes (eds.), Actas II Congreso Internacional de Estudios Patrísticos. San Juan, Argentina: Editorial Universitaria UCCuyo. S. 64-67.
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2020. The cause of Ukrainian autocephaly. In: Elizabeth A Clark, D Vovk (eds.), Religion during the Russian-Ukrainian Conflict. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. S. 180-191.
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2019. Eastern Christianity and Meditation. In: Miguel Farias, David Brazier & Mansur Lalljee (eds.), The Oxford handbook of meditation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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2019. One Composite Christ: Oneness and Duality of Jesus in the Byzantine Christology. In: Theresia Hainthaler, Dirk Ansorge, Ansgar Wucherpfennig (eds.), Jesus der Christus im Glauben der einen Kirche. Freiburg, Basel, Wien: Herder Verlag. S. 236-247.
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2019. Pastoral Care for the Ukrainian Orthodox. In: Evangelos Sotiropoulos (ed.), The Ecumenical Patriarchate and Ukraine Autocephaly. Order of Saint Andrew the Apostle, Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. S. 41-46.
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2019. Two Meanings of Freedom in the Eastern Patristic Tradition. In: Michael Welker (ed.), Quests for Freedom: Biblical, Historical, Contemporary. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books. S. 134-146.
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2015. Патристика след неопатристиката: A translation into Bulgarian of the paper presented in Durham conference in 2012 and published as Hovorun, Cyril. “Patristics after Neo-Patristics.” Edited by Justin Mihoc and Leonard Aldea, 205–13. Celebration of Living Theology. T&T Clark, 2015.. In: Justin Mihoc & Leonard Aldea (eds.), A Celebration of Living Theology: A Festschrift in Honour of Andrew Louth. London: Bloomsbury Academic. S. 205-213.
Edited Books
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Hovorun, Cyril, 2020. Служение общению: переосмысление связи между первенством и соборностью [Serving Communion: Re-Thinking the Relationship Between Primacy and Synodality]. Edited by Cyril Hovorun, Kyiv: Dukh i Litera, 2020.. Kyiv: Dukh i Litera.
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Hovorun, Cyril, 2020. Служіння сопричастю: переосмислення зв'язку між першістю і соборністю [Serving Communion: Re-thinking the Relationship between Primacy and Synodality]. Kyiv: Dukh i Litera.
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Hovorun, Cyril, 2019. Sacred Architecture in East and West. Los Angeles: Tsehai. S. 1-247.
Conference Contributions
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Hovorun, Cyril, 2020. Η ανταπόκριση της Ρωσικής Εκκλησίας στην Πανορθόδοξο σύνοδο (The Response of the Russian Church to the Panorthodox Council). 8ο Διεθνές Συνέδριο Ορθοδόξου Θεολογίας στη Θεσσαλονίκη από τις 21 έως τις 25 Μαΐου 2018 (8th International Congress of the Orthodox Theology in Thessaloniki, from 21 through 25 of May 2018)..
Reviews
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Hovorun, Cyril, 2019. The Sculptor and His Stone. Selected Readings on Hellenistic and Christian Learning and Thought in the Early Greek Fathers, hg. v. Archbishop Chrysostomos. In: Theologische Revue 115. 1. S. 45-47.
Other
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Hovorun, Cyril, 2022. Ryssland ska rädda världen från moraliskt förfall. Malmö
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Hovorun, Cyril, 2022. Sovjets undertrykkelse av kirken. Oslo: Vårt Land. S. 26-28.
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Hovorun, Cyril, 2022. The End of an Ideological Cycle?. Atlanta, GA: The Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University.
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Hovorun, Cyril, 2022. Tidligere Kirill-rådgiver: Kirken har været drivende kraft i udviklingen af russisk fascisme. Copenhagen S. 10-10.
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Hovorun, Cyril, 2022. Η Ρωσική Εκκλησία και ο Ουκρανικός πόλεμος [The Russian Church and the Ukrainian War]. Volos: Volos Theological Academy.
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Hovorun, Cyril, Vogel, Lothar, et al., 2021. La riconciliazione delle memorie: Ricordare le separazioni tra le Chiese e la ricerca dell'unità. Rome: San Paolo.
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Hovorun, Cyril, 2021. Дві сторони однієї ікони [Two Sides of the Same Icon]. Kyiv: Dukh i Litera. S. 9-9.
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Hovorun, Cyril, 2020. Theodore of Raith. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers.