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Reader Spencer Estabrooks

1966 – B.A. University of Toronto
1969 – B. Div. Knox College, Toronto
1978 – M.A. Carleton University, Ottawa
2002 – M. Div. St. Andrew’s College, Winnipeg

 

Spencer has completed coursework towards a PhD in Western Religious thought and Indian Philosophy. He has taught various courses in philosophy and religious studies over a period of 15 years as a sessional lecturer at a number of post-secondary institutions in Winnipeg, including the University of Winnipeg and Concord College.

 

His M.A. thesis was done on the Book of Revelation in the New Testament.

 

Throughout his life, Mr. Estabrooks has been involved in many informal and formal programs for lay Christian theological training.

 

His thesis for his M. Div. in Orthodox Theology was concerned with the importance of participation by laity in Holy Communion in the Orthodox Church.
Fr. Mirone Klysh

1952 – A.A.S. in Chemical Technology from New York Institute of Applied Arts and Sciences, Binghamton, New York
1960– L.Th. from St. Andrew’s College in Winnipeg, Manitoba
1967– M.A. in History/Slavic Studies from University of Manitoba

 

After receiving his A.A.S., Fr Mirone enrolled in the B.Sc. (Chemistry) program at Harpur College, Endicott, New York; he left to enter the U.S. Army during the Korean Conflict. Fr. Mirone also completed Ph.D. courses in History in 1970. He discontinued studies to do parish work in the Romanian Episcopate of the Orthodox Church in America.

 

Fr. Mirone is currently teaching various courses for the Saint Arseny Institute.
Very Rev. Fr. Anatoly Melnyk

1979 – graduated from the Mlinov Agricultural College, Veterinarian Division, Ukraine.
1986 - graduated from Saint Petersburg Theological Seminary.
1998 – graduated from Kiev Theological Academy.

 

Mitred Very Reverent Anatoly Melnyk used to teach a Liturgical Theology class (evening school) in Saint Petersburg. He has taught Church School and Theological courses in public school and prepared many young students for the Theological Schools in Volyn and Kiev, and Choir Director Schools in Ukraine.

 

From 1992 he established a parish newspaper “Orthodoxy” and was the Editor for the Archdiocesan Newspaper “Orthodox Volyn”. He also published several books for use in the Church and for home education.

From January 2000-2005, he was the rector of Holy Trinity Sobor in Winnipeg, Archdiocese of Canada. Since being re-located to Montreal in 2005, he continues to teach our Liturgics/Liturgical Theology courses by correspondence. He and his wife Iryna have two children: Julia and Hlib.
Dr. Deacon Lasha Tchantouridze
Bl. Reader AmandaEve Wigglesworth

2002 – BAR Biblical Scholarship, Rocky Mountain College, Calgary AB

2003 – Course sets 1, 2, & 3 Canada Institute of Linguistics, Langley, BC

2008 – Master of Applied Linguistics, Charles Darwin University, Darwin NT Australia.

 

AmandaEve completed a Bachelor's thesis on theosis (the Orthodox doctrine of salvation). Her Master's thesis dealt with issues in liturgical language transfer, specifically within the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Alberta. She has been involved in various parishes in Western Canada, and has been a choir director at three parishes. She has been involved in the St Peter the Aleut Orthodox Camp (in Alberta). She was blessed to travel on an OCMC mission trip to Zimbabwe in 2009 with her husband, sub-deacon Kevin Wigglesworth.

 

She has worked as a teaching assistant and assistant teacher at CanIL, and both teaching assistant and adjunt professor at RMC. She is currently teaching at Providence College and is also the director of the Reader's/Cantor's Program for the Saint Arseny Institute.