Background
Shmeman, Aleksandr was born on September 13, 1921 in Reval,nowTallinn(Estonia).
broadcaster historian theologian
Shmeman, Aleksandr was born on September 13, 1921 in Reval,nowTallinn(Estonia).
Graduated from the St. Sergius Theological Institute, Paris, 1945.
Moved to France in 1929. Lecturer in church history at the same institute, 1945-1951. Priest, 1946. Moved to the USA, 1951.
Professor at Columbia University. Professor of church history and liturgies at St. Vladimir Academy, New York, from 1951. Dean of the Academy, 1962-1983.
Prominent in world-wide ecumenical work, and gained a wide audience in the USSR through his religious broadcasts.
Works: The Historical Way of
Orthodoxy, and many books on liturgical subjects in Russian and in English.