Liturgical ID, Please! Identity’s Ontological, Relational, and Experiential Properties in the Worship and Prayers of the Church 

by Stelyios Muksuris


In the 1994 Disney film The Lion King, a particular scene speaks to the importance of recognizing and coming to terms with one’s identity. The scene renders, through the deceased lion king’s verbal exhortation to his son, the protagonist, three of the most insightful theological statements ever made in animation…

Stelyios Muksuris

Rev. Dr. Stelyios Muksuris is Professor and Chair of Liturgical Theology and Languages at the Byzantine Catholic Seminary in Pittsburgh. He is the author of Economia and Eschatology: Liturgical Mystagogy in the Byzantine Prothesis Rite (Boston: Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 2013), and has published scores of journal articles in his area of liturgiology, as well as spoken at several national and international conferences. Fluent in several languages, he has completed the only English translation of the voluminous Archieratikon of the Ecumenical Patriarchate (2026). He has served as a consultant on liturgical matters for both the Church and the Academy and is a member of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America’s Synodal Committee on Liturgical Texts. He also sits on the central board of the St. Phoebe Center for the Deaconess.

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