Sankt Ignatios Foundation
inter-orthodox christian ecumenical foundation
Sankt Ignatios Foundation is an inter-Orthodox Christian ecumenical and education organisation in Sweden. The foundation represents a collaboration between four Orthodox traditions, the Byzantine (Greek and Slavic), the Syriac, the Coptic and the Tewahedo (Eritrean-Ethiopian).
Through Sankt Ignatios College and Sankt Ignatios Folkhögskola, the Foundation provides education and training both for men and women seeking to serve in the Orthodox churches as priests deacons and educators and also a basic upper school level education for people who have recently moved to Sweden who lack the necessary qualifications to find employment. The Folkhögskola emphasises the importance of education for enabling people to play their full part in society.
The Foundation also awards the Order of Sankt Ignatios each year to someone who has made a significant contribution to the life or understanding of the Orthodox Church.
The motto of the Foundation is "Religion, peace and democracy through education and learning".
History
The story began in the 1990s when the Byzantine (Greek and Slavic) and the Syriac Orthodox Churches were invited to appoint a joint representative to the Christian Council in Sweden. They realized that they had to work together more closely than they had done before and that to do so they needed education to help them to learn about one another and to work together more effectively. They turned for help to the Swedish christian educational organization Bilda.
Eventually the churches decided that they needed their own body to provide education and training and to stimulate inter-Orthodox cooperation and in 2012 they established the Sankt Ignatios Foundation.
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