Early Christian thought scholar Valery Savrey dies

Valery Savrey, a professor at Moscow State University and the Moscow Theological Academy, died on October 19, the university's department of philosophy of religion and religious studies announced.

Savrey, who held a doctorate in philosophy, studied early patristic philosophical and theological thought and the writings of the Church Fathers. He was born in 1956.

He worked at the university's philosophy faculty department for more than fifteen years. His undergraduate courses covered parables in world religions and the structure of philosophical texts. He also taught philosophy of religion to master's students in philosophy.