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[[File:John-romanides.jpg|right|thumb|px225|Rev. Prof. John S. Romanides]]
Father '''John Savvas Romanides''' (1927 - 2001) was a prominent 20th century Orthodox Christian [[priest]], [[theologian]], and writer. Fr. Romanides served under the [[Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America]] and the [[Church of Greece]].
==Life==
Fr. Romanides was [[ordination|ordained]] in 1951 while studying at Yale University Divinity School, and served at Holy Trinity Church in Waterbury, Connecticut, from 1951 till 1954. After finishing his studies at Yale he was transferred for the summer of 1954 to Holy Trinity Cathedral in New York City until he left for studies at [[St. Sergius Orthodox Theological Institute (Paris, France)|St. Sergius Orthodox Theological Institute]] in Paris (1954-55). He did his doctoral work at the University of Athens from 1956 to 1957. His dissertation, ''The Ancestral Sin'', was accepted and published in 1957, but over the objections of faculty members [[Panagiotes N. Trembelas|Panagiotes Trembelas]] and P. I. Bratsiotis. Although the dissertation focused on original sin, [[Christos Yannaras]] writes, "Romanides succeeded in summarizing the whole of Orthodox [[dogma]], emphasizing the deep gulf separating it from the intellectualist and juridical expressions of Western dogma".<ref>Christos Yannaras, ''Orthodoxy and the West'', p. 276 (ISBN 978-1885652812)</ref>
He was appointed professor at [[Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology (Brookline, Massachusetts)|Holy Cross]], Brookline, Massachusetts, where he taught between 1957 and 1965 while continuing his studies and research at the Harvard Divinity School and then at the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. All this time, between 1957 to 1968, he was also a [[parish]] priest. He was appointed to the parish of Newport, New Hampshire, in 1958. Then in 1959 he was appointed the first priest of St. Athanasius the Great Orthodox Church in Arlington, Massachusetts, which he helped found and organize. He resigned from Holy Cross in 1965 in protest over the removal of Father [[Georges Florovsky]] from the faculty by [[Archbishop]] [[Iakovos (Coucouzis) of America|Iakovos]]. Between 1965 and 1968 Father Romanides served as the pastor of Holy Apostles' Parish in Haverhill, Massachusetts. He was professor of [[dogmatics]] at the University of Thessalonike from 1970 until his resignation in 1982. From 1970 on, he also taught at the University of Balamand in Lebanon. He continued to teach even after his retirement. He reposed in Athens on [[November 1]], 2001.
== Works ==
Romanides argued for the existence of a "national, cultural and even linguistic unity between Eastern and Western Romans" that exisited until the intrusion and takeover of the West Romans (the [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Catholics]]) by the Franks and or Goths (German tribes).
*''The Ecclesiology of St Ignatius of Antioch'' (1956).
* ''Ancestral Sin'' (2002) ISBN 0970730314
* ''An Outline of Orthodox Patristic Dogmatics'', edited by [[George Dragas|George Dion Dragas]]. (2004) ISBN 0974561843
* ''The Life in Christ'', translated from the French with an introduction by James L. Kelley (2010) ISBN 919672752
==Studies==
==External links==
*[http://www.romanity.org/ The Romans: Ancient, Medieval and Modern] Website honoring Fr. John and archiving many of his writings (and those of others)
* Φιλολόγικα/Philologica (one blog by Hans-Georg Lundahl): [http://filolohika.blogspot.fr/2012/03/is-romanides-accurate.html "Is Romanides accurate?"]
* Φιλολόγικα/Philologica: [http://filolohika.blogspot.fr/2012/03/was-romanides-accurate-bis-not-very.html "Was Romanides accurate? Bis! Not very much at all!"]
* Φιλολόγικα/Philologica: [http://filolohika.blogspot.fr/2012/03/linguistics-for-romanides-greek-latin.html "Linguistics for Romanides: Greek, Latin, Patois"]
*[http://www.photooikoumene.org/photo.nsf/htmllist/3DD32B7A81779631C1256C63005AD166/$FILE/07165-24t.jpg Photo] ([http://www.photooikoumene.org/photo.nsf/htmllist/A07165-24.html high-resolution version]): Rev. Prof. John S. ROMANIDES (Greece), Church of Greece, member of the WCC Central Committee, elected by the WCC 8th Assembly, Harare, [[Zimbabwe]], December 1998 (JPEG; © PhotoOikoumene, World Council of Churches, Geneva, Switzerland)
