Alexander Schmemann
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Alexander Dmitrievich Schmemann was an influential Orthodox priest, theologian, and author who spent most of his career in the United States.
Schmemann at a 1982 liturgy
A signed copy of For the Life of the World by Fr. Alexander Schmemann (located in Robarts Library)
Georges Florovsky
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Georges Vasilievich Florovsky was a Russian Orthodox priest, theologian, and historian.
Alexander Schmemann
…doctorate at St. Sergius Institute in 1959, with Fr. Nicholas Afanassieff and Fr. John Meyendorff acting as examiners. Schmemann was invited by Father Georges Florovsky, who had briefly taught in Paris after being rescued in 1947 from Soviet-dominated Czechoslovakia, to join the faculty of Saint Vladimir's Orthodox…
Florovsky, c. 1920s