Orthodox Monasticism

 
Thursday 3-Saturday 5 December 2026*
IOCS Winter School 2026:
Monastic Tradition and Orthodox Theology Today
At Westminster College, Cambridge
 

*3-4 December will be full days of lectures and discussion, with a full day visit to The Stavropegic Monastery of St John the Baptist, Essex, on Saturday 5 December.
 
Our 2026 Winter School will look at profound and sometimes unexpected ways in which the monastic tradition and theologians formed by it play a vital role in the rediscovery of 'theology as a liturgy of the Church' (Archimandrite Vasileios of Iviron), expressed alike in our teaching and in all facets of life. 
 
We will explore how monastic experience informs, perhaps transforms, our understanding of Scripture and of the human being; how it underpins pastoral service to 'the world'; and its powerful witness to contemporary spiritual seekers hungry for the sacred.
 
Speakers to include:
 
His Eminence, Archbishop Angaelos, Coptic Orthodox Archbishop of London
Archimandrite Antonios Kakalis, Senior Lecturer in Architecture, Newcastle University
Hieromonk Nikolai Sakharov, The Stavropegic Monastery of St John the Baptist, Essex
V Revd. Dr Bogdan Bucur, Associate Professor of Patristics at the St Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary (Yonkers, NY)
Mother Sarah, Parish of St John of Kronstadt, Bath
Mr Aidan Hart, The King’s Foundation School of Traditional Arts
Dr Kyriacos Markides, Prof. Emeritus of Sociology, University of Maine
More details to follow soon