It is located near the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, separated from the Pontifical Oriental Institute by the Church of Saint Anthony, and is known informally as the Russicum.
He has taught Canon Law (both Latin and Oriental) in Pontifical Urbaniana University, Pontifical Gregorian University, Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum and Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome.
He attended the Pontifical Urbanian University in Rome where in 1979 he obtained a degree in biblical theology and the Pontifical Oriental Institute, graduating in Eastern liturgical theology in 2001.
In 1980 he was awarded a doctorate degree in Eastern canon law (magna cum laude) from the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome with a dissertation, The Communion of Catholic Churches: Ecclesiology and Terminology.
He holds a doctorate degree in Eastern Liturgy from the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome.
The Pontificium Institutum Orientalium is the premier center for the study of Eastern Christianity in Rome, Italy
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In 2007 the Faculty of Oriental Studies at Cambridge University was renamed the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, but Oxford still has its Faculty for Oriental Studies, as do Chicago, Rome, London (covering African studies also), and other universities.
In 2006-2008 she worked as the Graduate Assistant of the renowned expert on Byzantine Liturgy, Professor Robert F. Taft, S.J., at the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome.