Andrej Ćilerdžić

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Andrej Ćilerdžić ( Serbian Андреј Ћилерџић, born August 21, 1961 in Osnabrück ) is Bishop of the Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Austria-Switzerland-Italy . From 2017 to 2018 he also headed the diocese of Frankfurt and all of Germany as administrator.

Life

After graduating from high school in Düsseldorf in 1980, where his father, Archbishop Vicar Dobrivoje Ćilerdžić (1920–1995), was a priest of the parish of St. Sava, he lived for some time on Holy Mount Athos in Greece .

In 1986 he graduated from the Theological Faculty of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Belgrade and was ordained a monk in December 1986 in the Decani Monastery , Serbia. He was in the St. Sava Church in early 1987 Dusseldorf for deacon ordained. In November 1990 he was ordained a priest, also in St. Sava, Düsseldorf. After teaching for three years in the seminary of St. Cyril and St. Method in Prizren , he was appointed ecumenical secretary in the Foreign Office of the Serbian Orthodox Patriarchate of Belgrade in 1993. In August 2002 he received the title of Archimandrite for the Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Novi Sad . As a child of the Serbian emigration after the Second World War , he is the first monk of the Serbian Orthodox Church to grow up in Germany.

Since 2008 he has been researching a doctoral project at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich on models of church unity in the 21st century . At the beginning of 2010 Athanasios Vletsis appointed him from the Chair of Systematic Theology as a research assistant.

Andrej Cilerdzic speaks German , English , Greek , Italian , Serbian and French , he also has knowledge of ancient languages . He is particularly distinguished by his ecumenical commitment .

On September 17, 2011, he was ordained Auxiliary Bishop of Remesiana in Belgrade and worked from 2011 to 2014 as head of the cabinet of the Serbian Patriarch Irinej in the Patriarchate of the Serbian Orthodox Church .

On May 23, 2014, he was elected Bishop of Austria-Switzerland-Italy by the Bishops' Plenary Assembly of the Serbian Orthodox Church, based in Vienna . Bishop Andrej is the first bishop of the newly founded diocese for Austria-Switzerland-Italy, which previously formed the diocese for Central Europe together with Germany.

At the plenary assembly of the World Council of Churches in Austria (ÖRKÖ), the delegates of the 16 member churches elected Bishop Andrej as one of the two deputy chairpersons on October 13, 2016 in Vienna.

From 2017 until Bishop Grigorije (Durić) took office in September 2018, Andrej headed the diocese of Frankfurt and all of Germany temporarily as administrator.

Publications

  • Essays Ecumenism, Orthodox Perspectives. In: Faith in the 2nd World, Issue 2/2009, Volume 37, pp. 18 ff.
  • Reviews Elmar Büttner, Archbishop Leon von Ohrid. Life and Work (with the texts of his previously unedited ascetic script and his three letters to the Pope) Orthodox Forum , Issue 1/2010, Volume 24, p. 107 ff.
  • Theological training and religious instruction in Serbia. In: Una Sancta. Journal for ecumenical encounters. Kyrios-Verlag GmbH, Meitingen-Freising, 2/2011, p. 144 ff.
  • Tolerance in the churches-supported by the churches. In: Quatember. Quarterly Bulletins for Church Renewal and Unity. 77th year, issue 4 / Advent and Christmas: Rites and Rituals , p. 233 ff.
  • Courage to take koinonia steps on the way to church unity. In: Pro Oriente. Volume XXXIX: Contributions to the Second Ecclesiological Colloquium, Essence and Limits of the Church. Tyrolia, 2015, p. 306 ff.
  • Why sorry Man between resignation and rebellion. In: The central role of creation - different interpretations of creation, evolution and creation in the Serbian Orthodox theology (= writings of the Catholic private university Linz). Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 2016, p. 151 ff.
  • La vita consacrata nella tradizione ortodossa. In: La vita consacrata nelle tradizioni cristiane - Sequela Christi. Atti del colloquio ecumenico, Roma 22/25 gennaio. 2015, p. 78 ff.
  • Encounter of the Orthodox Church with Islam - a mutual relationship? In: Pro Oriente. Yearbook 2013. Vienna-Salzburg-Graz-Linz 2014, p. 104 ff.
  • Holistic ecology - climate and social justice. In: Dossier - News and Statements of the Catholic Social Academy Austria , 08/2015, Justice - Peace - Preservation of Creation , p. 11 ff.
  • Serbs in Switzerland, Swiss Serbi , September 2015, No. 1.
  • La pace nella Divina liturgia. In: Beati i Pacifici. Edizioni Qiqajon, Comunità di Bose 2015, p. 111 ff.
  • Recognized religious communities in Austria and their expectations of the state-church relationship. In: Johann Bair, Wilhelm Rees (Ed.): Conference Series Religion and State in Focus , p. 39 ff.
  • Pastoral Expectations - Orthodoxy on the eve of the Pan-Orthodox Synod. In: KNA - Ecumenical Information , Documentation on June 14, 2016, p. 263.
  • Orthodox Impressions of Brother Roger and his life for Reconciliation. In: Acts of the International Colloquium of Taize , August – September 2015, p. 51 ff.
  • Seeing the positive of the council - History will judge the events in Crete. In: Ecumenical Information 28, News and Backgrounds from Christian Ecumenism and the Dialogue of Religions, p. 7 ff.
  • Short statement on ecumenism from the orthodox perspective. In: Ecumenism and canon law aspects (= Church Law Library, Vol. 13). Vienna, Berlin, Münster 2014, p. 37ff.
  • The encounter of the Orthodox Church with Islam. In: Ostkirchliche Studien , Volume 65, Issue 1, 2016.
  • New wine in new bottles - courageous monasticism and the oumenical dialogue as steps on the way to the unity of the church. Laudation for the presentation of the Abt-Emmanuel-Heufelder-Prize on November 5, 2016 in Niederaltaich. In: The Two Towers - Niederaltaicher Rundbrief , No. 110, Vol. 52, 2-2016, pp. 91–99.
  • The Reception of Dialogues in Orthodoxy. In: Ecumenical Information Salzburg , January 2017, number 32, pp. 11–12.
  • Church and State - the importance of a culture of dialogue. In: Ex Oriente Lux - Encounter with the Christian East , pp. 145–152.
  • The encounter of the Orthodox Church with Islam (= Eastern Church Studies, 65th volume, issue 1). 2016, pp. 5–18.
  • No uniform unity, but reconciled diversity (= Religion & Society, RGOW 6). 45th volume, 2017, p. 16 ff.
  • The Pan-Orthodox Synod of Crete (Orthodox Forum, magazine of the Institute for Orthodox Theology of the University of Munich). Volume 31 - 2017 - Issue 1 + 2, pp. 71–75.
  • An orthodox position on the “Mission of the Church in the Modern World” (KNA Ecumenical Information 23, News and Backgrounds from Christian Ecumenism and the Dialogue of Religions), Documentation I - IV.
  • Creation ethics - a common learning path - "The contribution of orthodox theology to ecological responsibility" (Gardens in the Desert - Severin J. Lederhilger (ed.)) - Writings of the Catholic Private University Linz 2018 - Verlag Friedrich Pustet, pp. 93-99.
  • Guilt and Forgiveness in the Orthodox Burial Liturgy - Ecumenical Information Salzburg - January 2019, No. 34 - Macht.vergebung - page 19
  • The Serbian Orthodox Church in the challenges of the 21st century - Writings of the Eastern Church Institute of the Diocese of Regensburg (Volume 3) - Dietmar Schon (ed.) - Verlag Friedrich Pustet 2019 - pp. 11-17.
  • God and the Digital Revolution - Writings of the Catholic Private University Linz (Skul 6) - Severin J. Lederhilger (Ed.) - Verlag Friedrich Pustet 2019 - pp. 213-223.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.erzdioezese-wien.at/site/home/nachrichten/article/57303.html
  2. ↑ Enthronement of the new bishop of Frankfurt and all of Germany. In: www.serbische-diozese.org. Archived from the original on October 7, 2018 ; accessed on October 7, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from May 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Ćilerdžić, Andrej
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cilerdzic, Andrej
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Serbian Orthodox clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück , Germany