The Institute for the Study of Eastern Christianity fosters and focus the study of eastern Christianity, in all its expressions.
The Institute for the Study of Eastern Christianity
at The Catholic University of America
From its origins, the center of Christian culture lay in the region of the eastern Mediterranean. Spreading from Judaea via book and missionary, at its furthest, eastern Christianity stretched from Kyiv to modern Iraq and western China. At its height, this culture understood itself as katholikê: world-wide.
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