Serafim Joanta

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Serafim Joantă (2007)

Serafim Joantă (born September 4, 1948 in Boholț , Făgăraș County , Romania ) has been the Romanian Orthodox Archbishop and Metropolitan for Germany , Central and Northern Europe since 1994 .

education

The high school education up to the Abitur he completed in Făgăraş . His theological training took place in one of the two theological colleges in Romania approved by the communists , namely in Sibiu . There he obtained his licensing diploma . In 1982 he was transferred to the Orthodox Theological Institute “St. Serge “ in Paris . There he received his doctorate in 1985 with a dissertation on the history of Romanian hesychasm . After receiving his doctorate, he taught "The History of Ecumenical Councils 325–787" and "The History of the Orthodox Churches" at the same institute. Shortly before the fall of 1989 , he returned to Romania. Between 1989 and 1990 he worked as a research assistant at the theological faculty in Sibiu .

Church career

Between 1974 and 1975 he worked as a celibate priest in the village of Pojorta , near Făgăraş . Then, from 1975 to 1982, he was a museographer and priest at the diocese cathedral in Alba Iulia . On February 17, 1990, he received the tonsure as a monk and the rank of archimandrite . The ordination to the bishop took place a month later on March 11th and was made by Metropolitan Antonie Plămădeală and by the bishops concelebrating with him. As a result, he became auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Sibiu and carried the title Făgărăşanul (from Fogarasch). There he worked until 1994 and his area of ​​responsibility included missions, catechesis and diaconal activities in the Transylvanian metropolis. At the same time he teaches Christian mission and Orthodox spirituality at the Theological Faculty in Sibiu. As a special assignment, he has the management of the missionary association “The Lord's Army”, which at that time had around 300,000 members.

honors and awards

Publications

  • Roumanie. Tradition et culture hesychastes. Paris , 1987.
    • German: hesychasmus. Romanian tradition and culture . Verlag Der Christian Osten, 2003, ISBN 3-927894-36-2 .
  • Le renouveau philocalique du XVIIIe siecle et son influence sur la vie liturgique. In: Liturgy. Conversion et Vie monastique. Rome 1989, pp. 159-183.
  • Les disciples roumaines du staretz Paissiy. In: Messager Orthodox. II, 1987, pp. 66-78.
  • Sfânta liturgy. In: Credința ortodoxă și viața creștină. Sibiu 1992, pp. 281-298.
  • Din istoria isihasmului până în secolul XV. In: Persoană și comuniune. Prinos de cinstire Pr. Prof. Acad. Dumitru Stăniloae . Sibiu 1993, pp. 549-564.
  • Deasă sau rară împărtășire. In: Neofit Kavsokalivitul, Nicodim Aghioritul: Despre dumnezeiasca împărtășanie cu preacuratele lui Hristos taine . Sibiu 1993, pp. 9-24.
  • Jürgen Henkel (Ed.): Living by Faith. Collected texts by Metropolitan Serafim of Germany, Central and Northern Europe on Orthodox theology and spirituality . Schiller Verlag, Sibiu (Hermannstadt) / Bonn 2008, ISBN 978-973-88756-3-0 .
  • Spiritual Fatherhood and Presence . In: Faith in the 2nd world. Ecumenical forum for faith, religion and society in East and West. Issue 3/2009 (37th volume), ISSN  0254-4377 , pp. 21-23.
  • Basic values ​​of orthodoxy . In: Faith in the 2nd world. Ecumenical forum for faith, religion and society in East and West. Issue 12/2009 (37th year).
  • The Eucharist in the Orthodox tradition . In: Orthodoxy currently . Information from the Orthodox Church. Issue 6 (June 2010), (14th year). Pp. 2-6.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Henkel: Living by Faith. Collected texts by Metropolitan Serafim of Germany, Central and Northern Europe on Orthodox theology and spirituality. Schiller Verlag, Hermannstadt 2008, p. 19.
  2. ↑ a b Henkel: Living by Faith. 2008, p. 21.
  3. ^ Commission of the Orthodox Churches in Germany ; see. Ioan Barbu: Lumina Nouă . Antim Ivireanu Verlag, Râmnicu Vâlcea 1997, p. 14.
  4. ↑ Decretul 667/2012 ( Memento of November 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Awarding of the Löhe Medal 2013 ( Memento from April 29, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  6. ↑ Diakonie Neuendettelsau's work is characterized by respect. on: diakonieneuendettelsau.de , March 22, 2012, accessed on April 3, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Joantă, Serafim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Romul Joantă
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian Orthodox clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Boholț , Brașov County , Romania