Wilhelm de Vries

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Wilhelm de Vries (born May 26, 1904 in Saarbrücken , † June 25, 1997 in Münster ) was a German Jesuit and church historian. He was Professor of Church History and Dogmatics at the Pontifical Orientale Institute in Rome .

De Vries was the brother of Josef de Vries , who was also a Jesuit and theologian.

He was a specialist in the Eastern Churches, which was related to the efforts of the Vatican in the 1950s and 1960s to move closer to the Eastern Churches and to establish new connections, for example, with Uniates and Ukrainian Catholics in the Soviet Union. His book on the Latin Patriarchates of the East was a standard work.

Fonts

  • Church and State in the Soviet Union, Munich: Pustet 1959
  • Rome and the Patriarchates of the East, Karl Alber Verlag, Orbis academicus , Munich / Freiburg 1963 (with Octavian Bârlea, Josef Gill Michael Lacko)
  • Sacraments theology among the Syrian Monophysites, Orientalia Christiana Analecta 125, Rome 1940
  • Sacramentous theology among the Nestorians, Orientalia Christiana Analecta 133, Rome 1947
  • The concept of the church of the Syrians separated from Rome, Orientalia Christiana Analecta 145, Rome 1955
  • The Christian East in past and present, Würzburg, Augustinus Verlag 1951
  • On the latest development of the Eastern Churches, Augustinus Verlag 1954
  • Orthodoxy and Catholicism: Opposite or Complement?, Herder Bücherei 1965
  • The Eastern Churches: Becoming a History, Eigenart, Reunification, Kevelaer 1963
  • Church of Diversity: Development of the Church in East and West, Recklinghausen: Paulus Verlag 1968
  • The structure of the church according to the 4th Council of Constantinople (869/870), Archivum historiae pontificae, Volume 6, 1968, pp. 7-42.
  • The structure of the church according to the Council of Ephesus (431), Annuarium historiae conciliorum, Volume 2, 1970, 22–55

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SURNAME Vries, Wilhelm de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and church historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarbrücken
DATE OF DEATH June 25, 1997
Place of death Muenster