TY - JOUR AU - Tsap, M. PY - 2020/12/27 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - FORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE REGENT'S DEPARTMENT OF THE VOLYN ORTHODOX THEOLOGICAL ACADEMY IN 1992–2020 JF - Zaporizhzhia Historical Review JA - ZHR VL - 2 IS - 54 SE - History of Ukraine DO - UR - https://istznu.org/index.php/journal/article/view/928 SP - AB - The article, based on a comprehensive analysis of eparchial archival sources, personal files of teachers of the current archive of the Volyn Orthodox Theological Academy and some scientific publications, chronologically examines the foundation and main stages of development of the regent department of the academy since its founding in 1992. Problem-chronological, historical-comparative and structural-functional methods were used in writing the study. The scientific novelty is that for the first time in Ukrainian historiography on the basis of local archival sources and individual scientific publications comprehensively and chronologically covered the history of the opening and formation of the regent's department first at the Volyn Theological Seminary, and since 2011 as part of VOTA. For almost thirty years of the department's activity, initially as a regent's class (1992–1996), regent's department (1996–2011), regent's faculty (2011–2017), and again regent's department of the Volyn Orthodox College of the Volyn Orthodox Theological Academy under the guidance and teaching staff proper base and accumulated extensive experience for the training of highly educated regents of church choirs and teachers of Christian ethics. ER -