History

Theological School in Sumy region has a long history. In the early nineteenth century, at the request of Paul Bishop (Sabbatovskiy) School Commission of the Holy Synod, taking into account a great number of temples in Kharkov diocese (the present territory of the Sumy region used to be a part of the Kharkov province), decided to open a seminary in Akhtyrka, where it was opened in August 30, 1819. Later in 1888 by the resolution of the Holy Synod the seminary was transferred to the city of Sumy where it functioned before the revolution.

A new period of the history of the Theological School started in 1997, when a former residence of the bishops of Sumy was returned to Sumy Diocese, where the school was located.

On October 27, 2015 the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church presided over by His Beatitude Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine Onuphrius (journal № 44) on His Eminence Archbishop of Sumy and Akhtyrka Eulogy’s efforts Sumy Theological School was transformed into Sumy Theological Seminary.