Resurrecting Gold from the Dunghill:Historical and Theological Considerations of Confession Practices in the East

by Stelyios Muksuris

A survey of confession and reconciliation practices in the contemporary Orthodox East presupposes a hearty trek through the ancient Church’s experience. From the apostolic age, one encounters two distinct perspectives on the theme of reconciliation in St. Paul’s epistles…

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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