The Transylvanian priest counted among the foremost Orthodox theologians of the twentieth century, who translated and annotated the Romanian Philokalia and suffered imprisonment under the communist regime.
- Born
- November 16, 1903 (Vlădeni, Transylvania)
- Reposed
- October 5, 1993 (Bucharest)
- See
- Bucharest
- Feast
- October 5
He was born in 1903 in the Transylvanian village of Vlădeni, the youngest of a large family, and studied theology at Cernăuți and in Athens, Munich, Berlin, and Paris before returning to teach at the theological academy of Sibiu.
Convinced that theology must be drawn from the living springs of the Fathers, he began in 1946 the immense work of translating the Philokalia into Romanian, adding his own extensive notes; the series would grow to twelve volumes carried on across the decades.
In 1958 the communist authorities arrested him, and he spent five years in prison, much of it at Aiud, for his faith and his association with the Burning Bush circle of Bucharest. He returned to teaching after his release, his witness deepened by the suffering.
His many-volumed Orthodox Dogmatic Theology and his studies of prayer and the world as gift made him known far beyond Romania, and he taught and lectured across Europe in his last years. He reposed in Bucharest on October 5, 1993.
Books in print
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- The Experience of GodBy Dumitru Stăniloae · Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 1998The opening volume of Stăniloae's monumental dogmatics, treating divine revelation and the knowledge of the Holy Trinity. A landmark of twentieth-century Orthodox theology, rooted throughout in the Fathers and the experience of prayer.Buy on Amazon
Holy St. Dumitru Stăniloae, pray to God for us.