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John Zizioulas was born on 10 January, 1931 in Katafygio, Kozani, is a Greek Orthodox prelate (1931–2023). Discover John Zizioulas's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 92 years old?

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Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 10 January 1931
Birthday 10 January
Birthplace Katafygio, Kozani
Date of death 2 February, 2023
Died Place Athens, Greece
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1931

John Zizioulas (Ιωάννης Ζηζιούλας; 10 January 1931 – 2 February 2023) was a Greek Orthodox bishop who served as the Metropolitan of Pergamon of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople from 1986 until his death in 2023.

He was one of the most influential Orthodox Christian theologians of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Metropolitan John was born in Katafygio, Velventos.

1950

His education began with study at the Universities of Thessaloniki and Athens in 1950, and then a year at the Ecumenical Institute of Bossey in 1955.

1960

Between 1960 and 1964 Zizioulas did doctoral research under the Eastern Orthodox theologian Georges Florovsky (1893-1979; Chair of Eastern Church History at Harvard and a member of the Russian Orthodox Church) and was a Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies.

1964

Zizioulas took up a post at the University of Athens in 1964 as assistant professor of Church history, and then six years later, worked as professor of patristics at the New College, Edinburgh from 1970 until 1973.

He moved to the University of Glasgow where he held a personal chair in systematic theology for some fourteen years.

In addition, Zizioulas also was a visiting professor at the Research Institute in Systematic Theology of King's College London.

1965

He received his doctorate in 1965 from the University of Athens.

1986

In 1986, he was elected titular metropolitan of Pergamon.

In the same year, he assumed a full-time academic post at Thessaloniki University's School of Theology as professor of dogmatics.

1993

In 1993 he was elected a member of the Academy of Athens, serving as its chairman in 2002.

2003

In 2003, the President of Greece awarded him the Senior Brigadier General of the Order of the Phoenix, In 2007 he was awarded the Lambeth Cross.

2010

Zizioulas held honorary doctorates from the Catholic Institute of Paris, the University of Belgrade, St. Sergius Institute in Paris, the Babeș-Bolyai University, University of Münster (2010), University of Munich (2015), New Georgian University in Poti (2019).

2011

He also was elected an Honorary Member of the Volos Academy for Theological Studies (2011).

2019

In 2019 President of Ukraine awarded him the Order of Merit III degree.

Zizioulas died from COVID-19 in Athens, on 2 February 2023, at the age of 92.

The theological work of Metropolitan John has focused upon the twin themes of ecclesiology and theological ontology.

The theology of Metropolitan John reflects the influence of Russian émigré theologians such as Nikolai Afanassieff, Vladimir Lossky and his teacher Georges Florovsky.

Zizioulas has also been significantly influenced by the ascetical theology of Archimandrite Sophrony (Sakharov), founder of the Stavropegic Monastery of St John the Baptist in Essex, England.

Zizioulas' ecclesiology was first developed in his doctoral dissertation, subsequently published in English as Eucharist, Bishop, Church.

Here Metropolitan John develops critically the eucharistic ecclesiology of Nikolai Afanassieff.

He accepts Afanassieff's principal contention that the Church is to be understood in terms of the Eucharist.

However, he criticises Afanassief's understanding as overly congregational and insufficiently episcopal in its emphasis.

Finally, Zizioulas advocates an episcopocentric understanding of Church structure, understanding the Bishop primarily as the president of the Divine Liturgy and the Eucharistic community.

Zizioulas worked on the theology of the person, appealing to the work of Irenaeus and Maximus the Confessor.

The primary focus of his work was to develop his own ontology of personhood derived from an extensive investigation of Greek philosophy, patristic era writings and modern rationalist philosophy.

He argues that full humanity is achieved only as person so that they may participate (koinonia) in the Trinitarian life of God.

However, an essential component of the ontology of personhood is the freedom to self-affirm the participation in relationship.

He continues that man initially exists as a biological hypostasis, constrained as to the types of relationships one can have (biological) and to the eventual end of this type of being - death.

He makes use of existentialist philosophers and novelists, notably the French absurdist writer Albert Camus, to show that the only type of ontological freedom in the biological hypostasis is the choice to commit suicide.

He claims that Baptism constitutes an ontological change in the human, making them an ecclesial hypostasis, or a person.

This rebirth 'from above' gives new ontological freedom as it is not constrained by the limits of biological existence.

Such ecclesial being is eschatological, meaning it is a paradoxical 'now,' but 'not yet.' The completion of this rebirth from above is the day of resurrection when the body will no longer be subject to death.

There are extensive bibliographies devoted to Zizioulas’ published works in various languages in: