Sokolov Ivan

Sokolov Ivan (1865–1939) – Byzantinist, historian of the Church.

After graduating from the Saratov Theological School (1880), he entered the Saratov Theological Seminary. In 1886-1890, he studied at the Kazan Theological Academy. From 1891 to 1893, he taught at the Saratov Theological Seminary. In 1894, he got Master degree in Theology for his work ‘The State of Monasticism in the Byzantine Church from the Mid-Ninth to the Early Thirteenth Century. (842–1204)’ (Prize of Metropolitan Macarius, 1896). In 1894, he was admitted to the service at the St. Petersburg Theological Seminary (until 1903) as a teacher of the Ancient Greek language. From 1903, Ass. Professor of the Department of the Greek-Eastern Church of the St. Petersburg Theological Academy.

For his work ‘The Church of Constantinople in the Nineteenth Century. An Attempt of Historical Research’ (1904) he got the degree of Doctor of Ecclesiastic History (Prize of Metropolitan Macarius, 1906). From 1904 to 1918, Ordinary Professor at the St. Petersburg Theological Academy. Since 1919, Professor of the Department of Byzantine Studies, Kiev University. In 1927, he was a teacher of Modern Greek language at the Leningrad Oriental Institute.

Headed the Bibliography Department of the ‘Vizantiisky vremennik’ Magazine (1895-1904); at the same time, he collaborated with the magazine ‘Strannik’ (‘Wanderer’; section ‘Church and Social Life in the Orthodox East’). Editor of the periodical ‘Messages of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society’ (since 1905), member of the Palestine Society; Editor of the ‘Tserkovny vestnik’ Magazine (Church Bulletin) (since 1911)

Member of the Pre-Council Presence (1906), the Pre-Council Meeting (1912), and the Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church (1917-1918), member of the Supreme Church Council.

He was arrested in the case of the so-called. ‘Evlogievtsy’ in December 1933, sentenced to five years of exile. Died in exile in Ufa in 1939.

Compositions

The State of Monasticism in the Byzantine Church from the Mid-Ninth to the Early Thirteenth Century. (842–1204): An Attempt of Research in Ecclesiastic History. Kazan University, 1894. 536 p.
Essays on the History of the Orthodox Greek-Eastern Church, in the Nineteenth Century. St. Petersburg: A.P. Lopukhin typ., 1901. 346 p.
Church, Religious and Social Life in the Orthodox Greek East in the Nineteenth Century. Historical Sketch. St. Petersburg.: A.P. Lopukhin typ., 1902. 83 p.
The Church of Constantinople in the Nineteenth Century. An Attempt of Historical Research. St. Petersburg: a type. M. Akinfiev and I. Leontiev, 1904. Vol. 1. 850 p.
Lectures on the History of the Greek-Eastern Church, for students of St. Petersburg Theological Academy in 1903-1904, St. Petersburg, 1904. 354 p.
The Athos Monasticism in Its Past and Present State. St. Petersburg: I.L. Tuzov typ.. 1904. 98 p.
St. Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica, His Works and Teaching on Hesychia. 1911. St. Petersburg: the Senate type, 1913. 90 p.
The Church of Antioch. An Outline of Its Current State. St. Petersburg: V.F. Kirshenbaum typ., 1914. 96 p.
Diocesan Administration in the Law and Practice of the Church of Constantinople Today. St. Petersburg: the Synod. Typ., 1914. 367 p.
Alexandrian Documents Related to the History of the Orthodox Church in Egypt in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, publ. by I.I. Sokolov. Petrograd: Orthodox Palestinian Society, 1916. 99 p.
Election of the Patriarchs of the Church of Alexandria in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Historical Sketch. Petrograd: M. Merkushev typ., 1916. 360 p.
The State of Monasticism in the Byzantine Church from the Mid-Eleventh to the Early Thirteenth Century (842-1204) / Introd. G.E. Lebedeva. St. Petersburg: O. Abyshko Publishing House, 2003. 464 p.
St. Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessaloniki, His Works and Teachings on Hesychia. Nikifor Blemmides, Byzantine Scholar and Church Leader of the Thirteenth Century. Ecclesiastic Politics of Byzantine Emperor Isaac II Angel. / Introd. A.V. Markidonov. St. Petersburg: O. Abyshko Publishing House, 2004. 243 p.
The Election of Bishops in Byzantium in the Ninth - Fifteenth Centuries. Election of Patriarchs of the Alexandrian Church in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries / Introd. Archpriest V. Tsypin. St. Petersburg: O. Abyshko Publishing House, 2004. 351 p.

About him

Golovin K.V. The Case of ‘Evlogievtse’ // St. Petersburg Diocesan Gazette. 2001. Iss. 24. P. 136-146.
Lebedeva G.E. From the History of Byzantine Studies and Neo-Hellenism in Russia: I.I. Sokolov // Muscovy. Problems of Byzantine and Modern Greek Philology. Vol. 1. Moscow, 2001. P. 229–246.
Lebedeva G.E. F. Kurganov and I.I. Sokolov: Teacher and Student // Problems of Social History and Culture of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time. Iss. 3. St. Petersburg, 2001. P. 53–73.
St. Petersburg Martyrology. St. Petersburg: Mir, Society of St. Basil the Great, 2002. P. 223–224.
Lebedeva G.E. Scholar and Time: I.I. Sokolov. Introduction // Sokolov I.I. The State of Monasticism in the Byzantine Church from the Mid-Eleventh to the Early Thirteenth Century (842-1204) / Introd. G.E. Lebedeva. St. Petersburg: O. Abyshko Publishing House, 2003. P. 7–32.
Karpuk D.A. Church and Historical Heritage of Ivan Ivanovich Sokolov (1865-1939), Professor of the St. Petersburg Theological Academy // Khristianskoe chtenie. 2005. Iss. 25. P. 184–202.
Lebedeva G.E., Berezkin A.V. Professor Ivan Ivanovich Sokolov: Historian at the Turning Point of Two Epochs // Paleorossia. Old Russia in Time, in Persons, in Ideas. 2016. Iss. 5. P. 476–488.