Pursuit of Godliness

Bishop Irenei (Steenberg) is the host of the popular A Word From the Holy Fathers podcast and the author of Beginnings of a Life of Prayer, as well as numerous scholarly books and articles. His Grace was sometime Fellow in Patristics and Early Church History at the University of Oxford. His Masters and Doctoral (D.Phil Oxon) works were on the theology of the earliest Church Fathers, especially St Irenaeus of Lyons. Since 2018 Bishop Irenei is the ruling hierarch of the Diocese of London & Western Europe in the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia.