Hanna Aydın

Archbishop Aydın

Mor Julius Hanna (Johannes) Aydın (born April 2, 1947 in Doğançay , Turkey ) is Archbishop for the ecumenical affairs of the Syrian Orthodox Church in Germany.

Life

The son of the cello Aydın and Sara (of Aramaic origin), b. Çelik, did an apprenticeship as a blacksmith after graduating from elementary school and did the mandatory military service in the Turkish army.

1969–1972 he attended the Austrian St. Georgs College in Istanbul. From 1972 to 1978 he studied theology in Beirut and Schwaz (Austria). From 1978 to 1980 he was secretary to Bishop Mor Julius Yeshu Çiçek . From 1980 to 1982 he studied at the Catholic University of Eichstätt , where he worked from 1983 to 1987 as a research assistant for the Chair of Ancient Church History.

After working in pastoral care from 1987 to 1992, he was again episcopal secretary from 1992 to 1996. From 1997 to 2012 he was abbot of the St. Jakob von Sarug monastery in Warburg and temporarily also head of the local seminary . In 2002 Hanna Aydın was awarded a doctorate by the St. Ephrem Ecumenical Research Institute in Kottayam (India). phil. PhD. From February 2006 to 2012 he was Patriarchal Vicar for Germany as successor to Mor Dionysios İsa Gürbüz . His episcopal ordination took place on February 18, 2007 in the St. Peter and Paul Church in Saidnaya near Damascus, Syria.

According to press reports, he was attacked, robbed and seriously injured by three strangers in his monastery in Warburg on April 15, 2010. The Bielefeld police suspected a former diocesan councilor of the Syrian Orthodox Church as the mastermind behind the attack. In December 2011, after six months of pre-trial detention, he was sentenced to a two-year suspended prison sentence after the actual perpetrators had been sentenced to between four and a half and seven years in prison for serious robbery.

In December 2011, Aydin was interviewed in the Neue Westfälische and expressed concern about the events in Syria. The Warburg report outlined the bishop's concerns about the 2011 protests in Syria .

On December 1, 2012, in the presence of Patriarch Ignatius Zakka Iwas , he handed the monastery over to Archbishop Philoxenos Matthias Nayis . Aydin has been based in Delmenhorst (Lower Saxony) since December 9, 2012 . He takes on pastoral responsibility for the parishes of St. Johannes (Mor Yuhanun da Kfone) Delmenhorst and St. Jakob Ganderkesee. In addition, he is responsible for the all-German issues of the Syrian Orthodox Church in the field of ecumenism and for all state affairs.

Works

• The Genealogy of Abraham and the Aramaeans (Syrians) . Bar Hebraeus Verlag, Glane 1987
• Monasticism in Tur-Abdin. The life of the monks in Tur-Abdin in the present . Bar Hebraeus Verlag, Glane 1988, ISBN 90-5047-006-8 , (diploma thesis)
• The Syrian Orthodox Church in Antioch. A historical overview . Bar Hebraeus Verlag, Glane 1990, ISBN 90-5047-009-2 , (Presentation: Congress: Christian Solidarity International (CSI) in Zurich / Switzerland on May 7, 1983)
• Patrologia Syriaca. The Church Fathers of the Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch . Bar Hebraeus Verlag, Glane 1990

Web links

Commons : Hanna Aydın  - collection of images

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.yauno.com/index.php?modul=article&action=show&id=1825
2. ^ Neue Westfälische , September 22, 2010: Bishop Julius moves out, an abbot will come
3. ↑ Jutta Steinmetz: PADERBORN: instigator of the attack on Bishop Aydin convicted , Neue Westfälische, September 17, 2011, accessed on December 16, 2011
4. ↑ Jessica Kleinehelftewes: WARBURG: "Never in writing" , Neue Westfälische, December 8, 2011, accessed on December 16, 2011
5. ↑ http://www.pro-oriente.at/?site=ne20121209115553

predecessor	Office	successor
Dionysios İsa Gürbüz	Syrian Orthodox Bishop for Germany 2006 - 2012	Philoxenos Matthias Nayis
-	Syrian Orthodox Bishop for ecumenical affairs in Germany since 2012	-