Scientific and publishing work of the theological and pedagogical academy of the UAOC in Munich (1945-1952)

The purpose of the research. On the basis of archival sources, to analyses the main directions and results of the scientific work of the Academy, the sources of its funding, the content of its publications – «Bulletin», «Collection of Scientific, Theological and Church History Works», «Theologian» and the motivation for studying the history of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. The methodology of the study is based on a combination of the principles of objectivity, scientificity and historicism and the use of general and special historical methods. Based on an interdisciplinary approach, the comparative historical, problematic chronological and retrospective methods, analysis and synthesis were used. Scientific novelty. For the first time, on the basis of archival materials and periodicals of the time, the article analyses the scientific and publishing activities of the Theological and Pedagogical Academy of the UAOC in Germany in 1946-1952, identifies the sources of its funding, its role in preserving the national spiritual educational tradition and studying the history of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Conclusions. The Theological and Pedagogical Academy of the UAOC in Munich was a center for preserving the tradition of Ukrainian spiritual education and research. It brought together a cohort of well-known Ukrainian scholars of the humanities – N. Polonska-Vasylenko, O. Ohloblyn, P. Kovaliv, L. Okinshevych, H. Vashchenko, and church leaders – Archbishop Mykhailo (Khoroshy), I. Vlasovsky, and others – who continued Ukrainian church history and theology studies in difficult emigration conditions and contributed to the scientific development of the church history of Ukraine. The leading direction of scientific work was the scientific meetings of the theological faculty. The academy's publishing houses include «Bulletin», «Collection of Scientific and Theological and Church Historical Works», and «Theologian», which became a platform for publishing the results of scientific research.