Archimandrite Ireini (Steenberg) – was born in the United States in 1978 .  He was head of Theology & Tutor for Graduates, University of Oxford.  In 2011 he became Founder and Dean of the Sts Cyril & Athanasius Institute for Orthodox Studies, San Francisco.

“… being general in a Christian way—[mysticism is] encountering Christ but in a way that we can’t understand or can’t articulate.”  ~ Hieromonk Ireini (Steenberg) from a lecture on “Orthodoxy and Mysticism”, 2010.