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Conference at Pontifical Gregorian University

12th International Conference ‘Christianity in Azerbaijan: History and Modernity’ took place on April 10, 2025 at Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Italy. Azerbaijan is a country, neighboring Russia in the Southern Caucasus. Its population speaks a Turkic language and belongs mostly to Shiite Islam. Christianity came to Azerbaijan in the 4th century A.D. from the Byzantine Empire and formed a special structure, called Church of Caucasian Albania. Christian faith has formed since those ancient times an important part of the religious landscape of Southern Caucasus. The conference gathered a number of scholars and experts in interfaith contacts from Azerbaijan, EU and the Russian Federation, the USA and Canada, Great Britain and Turkey, to name but a few. Our Chair was represented by Ms. G. Seidova, who gave a talk dedicated to the Role of City of Chora (Derbent) in History of Caucasian Albania and its Church.

Attachment: Program of the conference (in Azerbaijani, English, and Russian)

The Northern Caucasus Affiliation

On March 25, 2015, the Northern Caucasus affiliation of our Chair was inaugurated in the city of Derbent, basing upon the premises of the State University of Daghestan, and the Naryn-Kala historical, architectural and artistic museum.

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UNESCO Chair in Comparative Religious Studies (592), established in 2002 at Saint-Joseph University, (Lebanon)

  • College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oregon. Oregon Humanities Center
  • Center Leo Apostel (CLEA), Brussels Free University (Brussels, Belgium)
  • Center for XX Century Studies, Milwaukee University, Milwaukee (Wisconsin, USA)
  • The Elijah School for the Study of the Wisdom of the World Religions (Jerusalem, Izrael)

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