Research Center

The Department of the study of the manuscript tradition of the New Testament was established by the decision (13 / 27.12.2013) of the Board the Directors of the Volos Academy for Theological Studies.

Its main purpose is the creation of a critical edition of the Byzantine text, used by the Eastern Orthodox Church as its liturgical text. Among its objectives are the finding, collecting, photographing, transcription and study of manuscripts (continuous text or eklogadia) that preserve the Byzantine text type; the education and training of specialists in the criticism of the text; the organization of conferences and seminars; the critical editions of the New Testament text; and especially the re-publication of the Patriarchal edition of 1904 with improvements, corrections and the application in general of modern scientific methodology; the study and promotion of any form of  interpretative commentary of the text of the New Testament in Byzantine manuscripts (liturgical manuscripts, catenae etc.);