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A successful online Master’s defense of the DLMPES’ student Penny Cavill was held on January 23, 2017. The head of the Master’s Commission Dr. Roman Zaviyskyi, Dean of the Philosophy and Theology Faculty at UCU, expressed his appreciation of the quality of the Cavill’s thesis and its presentation.

Faculty professor of DLMPES and UCU Fr Oleh Kindiy and DLMPES’ Coordinator Fr Roman Fihas took part at the annual International Conference “Theology of Nature: Divine Gift and Human Responsibility” in Utrecht (the Netherlands) organized in the frame of the DELM-network (Development of Ecumenical Leadership in Mission) by ICCO-Kerk in Actie and St. Andrew’s Biblical Theological Institute.

For nine successive years Ecumenical Social Weeks have been held in Lviv. Each year, with the support of the Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv City Council, Lviv Regional Council and Administration, National University "Lviv Polytechnic", the Institute of Ecumenical Studies at UCU initiates the all-Ukrainian public Forum. Traditionally during the autumn season the representatives of various faiths, religious organizations, education, authorities, business, public sector, media and all people of good will gather and share their experience and work out solutions towards social problems.

After fighting various complications arising from the surgery, Dr. Kiyoshi Seko, IES faculty member, tragically passed away on Saturday, May 7. The funeral mass was held the day after at the parish of the city of Daito, Osaka.

The V. Rev. Laurent Cleenewerck, rector of St Innocent Orthodox Church in Eureka, CA and a faculty member of the Institute of Ecumenical Studies, travelled last week to Amman, Jordan, at the invitation of King Abdullah II to be recognized for his recent contribution to Christian-Muslim and interfaith dialogue.

On January 21, at the Chapel of the Ukrainian Catholic University was held an ecumenical prayer for Christian unity and peace in Ukraine. The Institute of Ecumenical Studies has been traditionally inviting representatives of different Christian denominations to pray together during the World Week of Prayers for Christian Unity.

Academic assistant of the Institute of the Ecumenical Studies Pavlo Smytsnyuk and Coordinator of the Distance Learning Master’s Program in Ecumenical Studies Fr. Roman Fihas took part in the international theological ecumenical conference in Belgrade (Serbia).

On May 20th at the festivities dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the Philosophy Theology Department at UCU, the Grand Chancellor of the University, His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk, announced Vatican’s accreditation of UCU’s Theology Program.

Deacon Didier Rance had an online lecture with the DLMPES’ students explaining the main principles and task of the new ecumenical discipline Ecumenical Hagiology.

A priest from the Chevetogne Monastary (Belgium), editor of the journal Irenikon and an active member and participants of numerous ecumenical initiatives and seminars Father Thaddee Barnas had an online lecture to the students of DLMPES on October, 28. During the video-conference father shared some thoughts on the theme of Receptive Ecumenism.