We welcome you to the website of the postgraduate study program “Slavic World, Balkans and Hellenism: History, Education, Culture” of the Department of Theology of the University of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
The Department of Theology, since its establishment by Law 1268/1982, is among the first Greek Departments, in which Slavic studies are intensively cultivated to this day, continuing the tradition of the unified School of Theology of AUTH
From the academic year 2021-2022, the Department of Theology started the operation of the only specialized postgraduate program dedicated to the history, literature, and culture of the Slavic world and its timeless relations with Hellenism. From the academic year 2024-2025, the program operates renewed and enriched, according to which students are given the choice of writing a Master’s Thesis or attending three additional courses that yield the same number of teaching units (ECTS).
On our website of the program you will find all the necessary information about its Regulations, the Study Program, the Courses and their organization as well as about the teachers, as well as about its structure and administration. You will also find information about the infrastructure of the Department of Theology, its Library, as well as the Information Technology Island.
The Program Director
Ilias G. Evangelou
Professor of Ecclesiastical Secretariat
and the Spiritual Life of the Slavic Peoples
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The physiognomy of the Department of Theology
In its almost forty years of operation, the Department of Theology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki has formed its own identity and physiognomy. It has pursued and consistently serves the creative synthesis of tradition and renewal, a synthesis which it expresses in a liberal and ecumenical spirit. It systematically cultivates theological dialogue with both the academic and research community. It monitors and participates in developments in the field of the scientific study of religion and culture, in the area of inter-religious dialogue and cultural pluralism, in religious education in contemporary reality, as well as in the prospects of the single area of European higher education The Department attaches particular importance to the study of the Orthodox Tradition and the culture that derives from it and embodies it in various monuments of speech and art, and the methodological tools for approaching and researching these monuments are also used in the study of the Orthodox Tradition. The above elements shape the Department’s physiognomy and its philosophy, which is based on the triptych of openness – dialogue – culture.