Orthodoxy in Korea: history and modernity

The material for this section was prepared on the basis of available publications on the history of Orthodoxy in Korea, as well as on the basis of a conversation with a 4th year undergraduate student at the St. Petersburg Theological Academy Choi Filaret (Faculty of Foreign Students). Prior to joining the Academy, Filaret Jiyun Choi was a parishioner of the Seoul parish of the Korean Metropolitan Patriarchate of Constantinople. It is noteworthy that during the years of study in Korean educational institutions he was actively interested in the history of the Russian Orthodox Church. In 2009, at the University of Suwona in the city of Suwon of Könki province, he presented a graduation qualifying work on the theme “The liturgical reform and schism of the Russian Orthodox Church in the 17th century”. In 2013, at the University of Koryo in Seoul, he successfully defended his master's thesis “The Russian Orthodox Church in Korea: the beginning of missionary activity in 1900-1912”.