Cyril Hovorun

Archimandrite Cyril Hovorun is a graduate of the Theological Academy in Kyiv and the National University in Athens; he completed his doctoral studies at Durham University in the UK. He served as a chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and the first deputy chairman of the Educational Committee of the Russian Orthodox Church. Later, he did his research as a fellow at Yale and Columbia Universities and as a visiting professor at the University of Münster in Germany. He is an international fellow at Chester Ronning Centre for the Study of Religion and Public Life at the University of Alberta in Canada and an invited professor at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.

More than 500 pieces of his research and journalism have been published in 30 languages. His books include "Eastern Christianity in Its Texts" (London: T&T Clark, 2022); "La riconciliazione delle memorie: Ricordare le separazioni tra le Chiese e la ricerca dell’unità" (Roma: San Paolo, 2021, in co-authorship with Lothar Vogel and Stefano Cavallotto); "Political Orthodoxies: The Unorthodoxies of the Church Coerced" (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2018; Ukrainian translation published in 2018); "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; Russian translation published in 2024); "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 and English); "Will, Action and Freedom. Christological Controversies in the Seventh Century" (Leiden - Boston: Brill, 2008).