Todor Sabew

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Todor Sabew (also written Todor Sabev , Bulgarian Тодор Събев ; * 1928 ; † September 13, 2008 ) was a Bulgarian Orthodox church historian and university professor .

Live and act

Todor Sabew was the son of Kolio and Liutsa Sabev. After attending a preparatory seminar , he studied Orthodox theology and liturgy at the Theological Academy of Sofia . After completing his doctorate and habilitation, he founded and headed the Institute for Church History and the Archives of the Bulgarian Patriarchate . Soon after, in 1961, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church became a member of the World Council of Churches . He was appointed a member of the Ecumenical Commission and later, when the commission was transformed into the Department of Interchurch and Ecumenical Relations, he was appointed its director. Eventually he was elected WCC deputy general secretary. In this function he promoted the deepening and broadening of ecumenical relations and built bridges between the churches of the East and the West.

Sabew was a member of the Christian Peace Conference and worked on the All-Christian Peace Assemblies that had been held in Prague since 1961 .

During his last lifetime he drew attention to himself when in 1994 he praised the Egyptian orthodox alleged visionary Vassula Ryden as a prophet of the modern age enlightened by God's gracious gifts - in contrast to the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith , which warned against any recognition of the visionary.

Works

  • Todor Sabew: Самостойна народностна църква в Средновековна България , 1987

Reviews

  • Todor Sabev, The Orthodox Churches on the World Council of Churches, Towards the Future, WCC Publications, Geneva / Syndesmos Bialystok 1996, in: JbM 1997 (1997), pp. 225-226

Co-author

  • Relationships between the World Council of Churches and its Eastern European Member Churches - Challenges, Opportunities, Deficits, Volume 7. With a foreword by Dwain C. Epps. With contributions by John A. Moses, Bert Hoedemaker, J. Jürgen Seidel, Joachim Heise, Johannes Althausen, Günter Krusche, Josef Smolik, Peter Mulik, Todor Sabev, András Reuss, Hans-Dieter Döpmann , Robert F. Goeckel, ISBN 3- 931232-06-9

Honors

  • posthumously: Honorary member of the board of trustees of the PRO ORIENTE Foundation, awarded by the Archbishop of Vienna in 1989

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.oikoumene.org/de/dokumentation/documents/oerk-generalsekretaer/tributes/prof-dr-todor-sabev.html
  2. ↑ http://www.tlig.org/gm/gmsabev.html
  3. ↑ http://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/56133.html
  4. ↑ http://www.pro-oriente.at/?site=ka00010404
personal data
SURNAME Sabew, Todor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sabev, Todor; Събев, Тодор (Bulgarian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bulgarian Orthodox theologian
DATE OF BIRTH 1928
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 2008