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The Joy of Meeting the Saints in the West

by Sergei Chapnin

In December 2017, the icon exhibition Saints of the Undivided Church opened at the National Art Museum of Belarus in Minsk. It presented icons of the ancient saints of the West up to the Great Schism of 1054.

Sergei Chapnin

Sergei Chapnin is Director of Communications at the OCSC of Fordham University and Chief Editor of The Gifts (Дары) Almanac. He is a former Managing Editor of Journal of the Moscow Patriarchate. From 2010–2014 he served as a secretary for the Commission of the Moscow Patriarchate on Church, State, and Society. He is one of the founders of the Church Builders Guild and leads several projects on ecclesial arts as a board member, publisher, and editor.

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