Professor of the Moscow Theological Academy Ivan Vasilyevich Vorobyev (on the 90th anniversary of his birth)

Abstract

Professor Ivan Vasilievich Vorobyev (1933–2008) was an outstanding teacher and mentor of the Moscow Theological Academy, who devoted his entire life to his alma mater. The aim of the article is to reveal the professor's life path, first as a student of Moscow Theological Schools, and then as a teacher and assistant inspector on duty. The most important sources for the article are the little-studied archival materials: Ivan Vasilievich's personal file, Journals of the Moscow Theological Academy Council meetings and Reports on the state of the theological schools. The article attempts to clarify some facts from the biography of Ivan Vasilievich on the basis of archival data and to try to restore his image as a zealous worker of Moscow theological schools.