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[[Image: Dumitru Staniloae.jpg|right|thumb|200pxl|Father Dumitru StaniloaeStăniloae]]'''Dumitru StaniloaeStăniloae''' was a [[priest]] of the [[Church of Romania]] who is renowned as an Orthodox theologian, academic, and professor. In addition to commentary on the works of the [[Church Fathers of the Church ]] and the a Romanian translation of the [[Philokalia]], his 1978 masterpiece, ''The Dogmatic Orthodox Theology'' in 1978 established him as one of the foremost Christian Theologians theologians of the later half of the twentieth century.
==Life==
Dumitru was born on [[November 16]], 1903 , in Vladeni, Brasov County of , Romania , to Irimie and Rebecca StaniloaeStăniloae. His mother, Rebecca Staniloae , was the niece of a priest. He was the youngest of their five children. At the age of thirteen he began studies at the Andrei Saguna Şaguna Confessional Humanist Lyceum. The following year he received a fellowship from the Gojdu Foundation. In 1922, he received a fellowship from Cernauti Cernăuţi University, but found the course of study unsatisfactory and redrew withdrew after one year. For the year From 1923-1924, he attended classes at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Bucharest.
Having returned to Cernauti Cernăuţi University, he graduated in 1927, having completed under the supervision of Professor Vasile Loichita completing a thesis entitled ''Baptizing Children''under the supervision of Professor Vasile Loichiţă. In the Fall fall of 1928, Dumitru received his doctorate doctoral degree after completing his dissertation, ''Life and Work of Dosoftei of Jerusalem and his His Connections with Romanian Principalities''. Over the next several years he studied Byzantology and Dogmatics under a fellowship from the Metropolitan Center in Sibiu, as well as attended attending courses taught by Professor August Heisenberg in Munich. In 1929 and 1930, he researched documents concerning [[Gregory Palamas ]] in Berlin, Paris, and Constantinople.
On [[October 4]], 1930 , he married Maria Mihu, who presented him the following year with twins, Maria and Dumitru. His son, Dumitru, died shortly after his birth. His daughter, Maria, survived until April 1946. On [[October 8]], 1931, Dumitru was ordained [[deacon]], followed by his [[ordination]] to the [[priest]]hood on [[September 25]], 1932. On October 8, 1933, a another daughter, Lydia, was born to the couple.
On [[January 1]], 1934, Fr. Dumitru became the director of the newspaper ''Romanian Telegraph'', a position he held until 1945. In June 1936, he was named [[rector]] of the Theological Academy in Sibiu.
With the end of World War II, the government of Romania was taken over by communists, and began to oppress the Orthodox Church in Romaniathere. Under political pressure, Fr. Dumitru was forced, in 1946, to step down from the rectorship of the [[academy]], although he continued teaching as a professor until the next year, 1947. He, then, transferred to the University of Bucharest , assuming the Ascetics and Mystics chair Chair as a member of the Faculty of Theology. In 1949 , however, this chair was abolished. Still, but Fr. Dumitru continued to teach graduate students as a professor of Dogmaticsdogmatics.
In 1950, Fr. Dumitru began to attend meetings of the ''Rugul Aprins'' (''Burning Altar'') group. This was a group formed in 1940 by a number of academics, including [[hieromonk]]s Ivan Kulighin, Benedict Ghuis, and Sofian Boghiu and Priests priests Andrei Scrima and Ion Marin Sadoveanu. The group met at the Cernica and Antim [[monastery|monasteriesMonasteries]] and was a center for rejuvenation of Orthodox Christian life in Bucharest. In 1958, coinciding with the withdrawal of the Soviet Army from Romania, a wave of political arrests were made, including members of the Rugul Aprins group. Fr. Dumitru was among those arrested. On [[September 5]], 1958, he was confined to prison to await his trial that , which began on [[November 4]], 1958.
Over next several years, Fr. Dumitru was moved among a number of prisons. He was held in isolation for months at a time, until 1963 when he was releasedin 1963. He then began working for the [[Holy Synod]] of the Romanian Orthodox Church. In 1965, he is was asked by the Romanian State Department of Cults to write articles and take part in studies as the government attempted to project an image of religious freedom in Romania. Fr. Dumitru was permitted to travel and attend world wide worldwide conferences.
In 1968, he was permitted to attend conferences in Freiberg and Heidelberg. In 1968 The same year he lectured at Oxford University of in the United Kingdom. Then , in 1973, he retired, but continued as a consultant professor for doctoral studies. During the succeeding years he was honored often, including receiving ''Doctor Honoris Causa'' degrees from the University of Thessaloniki in 1976, ; [[St. Sergius Orthodox Theological Institute (Paris, France)|St-Sergius Othodox Orthodox Institute]] in Paris, France , in 1981, ; from the Faculty of Orthodox Theology of Belgrade in 1982, ; from the University of Theology of Athens in 1991, ; and from the University of Bucharest in 1992.
On [[October 5]], 1993, Fr. Dumitru Staniloae Stăniloae died at the age of 90.
==Works==
Following are the titles of some of his works:
*''Catholicism after the War'', Sibiu. , 1932*''Life and teachings Teachings of Gregory Palamas'', Sibiu, 1938*''Orthodoxy and Romanianism'', Sibiu, 1939*''Jesus Christ , or Man's Restoration'', Sibiu, 1943*''[[Philokalia]] '' (translation); vol. 1: Sibiu, 1946; vol. 2: Sibiu, 1947; vol. 3: Sibiu, 1948; vol. 4: Sibiu, 1948; vol. 5: Bucharest, 1976; vol. 6: Bucharest, 1977; vol. 7: Bucharest, 1978; vol. 8: Bucharest, 1979; vol. 9: Bucharest, 1980.*''Treaty of Orthodox Dogmatic Theology'', Bucharest, 1978*''Theology and the Church'', New York, 1980*''Priere de Jesus et experience de Saint Espirt'', Paris, 1981*''Orthodox Spirituality'', Bucharest, 1981*''Moral Orthodox Theology'', vol. 2, Bucharest, 1981*''St. Gregory of Nyssa - Writings '' (translation), Bucharest, 1982*''Orthodoxe Dogmatik'', 1985
==External linklinks==*[[w:Dumitru Stăniloae|''Dumitru Stăniloae'' on Wikipedia]]*[http://enwww.wikipediaincommunion.org/wikiarticles/resources/Dumitru_St%C4%83niloae Wikipedia: Dumitru Staniloaevideo/fr-dumitru-staniloae-essence-of-christianity ''Essence of Christianity'']- short video
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