Introduction

 

Nationality:  Portuguese

 

Education

  • 1972-1980:  Primary & Secondary School, Yekabpils, Latvia.

  • 1981-83:  Riga’s Textile College, Degree with Distinction                               

  • 1992:   CU Certificate Proficiency in English, Kings’ School of English, London.

  • 1992-1995:  BA degree in Theology. London Bible College, Brunel University, Great Britain, Upper Second Degree.

  • 1995-1996:  MTh, London Bible College, Brunel University, Great Britain, Dissertation: ‘Theology of Icons: A Protestant Perspective’, MTh degree awarded in 1996. 

  • 2006: PhD at Durham University, Great Britain, ‘The Development of the Authority within the Russian Orthodox Church’ under the supervision of Prof. Andrew Louth.

 

Publications

  • MTh dissertation was published as a book in Russian, “Богословие икон, Протестантская точка зрения, Санкт-Петербург”, «Библия для всех», 2000. This book was later translated into Romanian (2002).

  •  Publication of the article “West versus East and the Consequences for Russian Christianity”, in the Eurasian Theological Journal, Bogoslovskije razmishleniia, 6, (2006), 69-97.

  • Publication of PhD dissertation in progress, ‘The Development of the Authority within the Russian Orthodox Church’. Peter Lang, Oxford (English); Colloqium, Ukraine (Russian)

  •  “Theology of Icons, Protestant perspective” published as a book in Russian, 2000. Later translated into Romanian, 2002.

  • “West versus East and the Consequences for Russian Christianity”, 2006

  • “The Development of the Authority within the Russian Orthodox Church”, planned for 2011.