Kyiv Theological Academy and Seminary

The Kyiv Theological Academy and Seminary is a school of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church - so both the academy and the seminary are named in the general information on its own site². The site gives 1989 as the year of the seminary's revival and 1992 as the academy's, and the school is housed in Kyiv, on Lavrska Street^{2, 3}. The academy is a higher theological school: it trains clergy, teachers for theological schools and church scholars, has a single faculty and awards the degrees of master and candidate of theology; the seminary is a secondary school with four years of study and a bachelor's degree². Beyond theological subjects proper, rhetoric, pastoral psychology and psychiatry, pedagogy, the history of philosophy, and the history and law of Ukraine are studied here, with Ancient Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Modern Greek and English as electives².

The academic church of the school stands not at the academy itself but on the grounds of the Holosiievo Monastery of the Protection of the Mother of God: the first services in the new church were held on 11 September 2023⁴. It is dedicated to St John of Damascus - so it is named in the captions of the broadcasts as well^{4, 5}.

The academy opened its video channel on 2 December 2013, and its own site calls it plainly the official channel of the Kyiv Theological Academy and Seminary^{1, 3}. The backbone of the broadcasts is a weekly pair: the all-night vigil and the Divine Liturgy in the academic church. More than two thirds of all completed broadcasts fall on Saturday and Sunday, and the rest on feasts that fall on weekdays⁵.

Alongside the services the channel shows the life of the school itself: the commencement day of the Kyiv theological schools, tonsures, graduation, sermons, carols⁵. The academy has laid out its video archive in thematic collections of its own - more than two dozen of them, each with a name of its own⁵. At the school there are also a library, a church archaeology museum and Orthodox catechetical courses named after St Peter Mohyla¹.