Paulos Gregorios

Paulos Mar Gregorios or Paul Verghese ( born August 9, 1922 in Tripunithura, Kerala, † 24 November 1996) was a Syrian Orthodox priest, Metropolitan and Catholicos of the East.

Life and work

Paul Verghese or " Vargīsa Pola " was born in the traditionally Christian family of TP Piely and Aley Piely and learned his early education in his hometown. He began his career as a freelance journalist with articles and reports for various newspapers in Kochi and Malabar. He later took a journalistic work in " Cochin Transport Company ". In 1942, he became active in the " Post & Telegraphs Department". This was followed by work as a teacher in Ethiopia. There the Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie was aware of him. The resulting intellectual relationship meant that Verghese in Ethiopia had a career. He was delegated to further study in the United States: at Goshen College, Oklahoma University, Princeton and Yale.

In 1954 he returned to India with a degree as a master 's degree in theology. He began working as a director of the fellowship house in Aluva and as a guest professor at the Union Christian College Aluva. In 1955 he joined the faculty of the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Kottayam. He was also Secretary General of the movement of Orthodox Christian students. During a visit to the Ethiopian Emperor in India 1956, Verghese was convinced to return to Ethiopia. There he was in the period following his work as personal assistant and advisor to the emperor.

In 1958 he returned again to India and was ordained a deacon. In 1961 he was ordained by the Katholikose as the "Father Paul Verghese ," the man at the top leadership of his church. As Father Verghese, he continued his theological studies continued. He wrote his doctoral thesis at Oxford and Germany and became a doctor of theology at Serampore College, Calcutta. In 1967 he was appointed as Director of the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Kottayam. For Metropolitan, he was appointed by his church in the form of HH Moran Mar Baselios eyes I. on 16 February 1975. Paulos Mar Gregorios A year later headed the Diocese of Delhi and founded the Delhi Orthodox Centre. He held several positions in the World Council of Churches ( WCC) held. In 1962 he became the director of the Department of Ecumenical activity at WCC and 1966 Assistant Secretary General. At the same time he was a member of the Central Committee and the Executive Committee and Member of the Commission " Faith and Order ".

From 1983 to 1991 he was one of the presidents of the WCC and a vice president of the Christian Peace Conference in 1970 until 1990.

After 1990, he sat on the improvement of inter-religious dialogue of religions of the world, a fact that prompted opposition from various quarters. In 1991, he became president of the officially established Interreligious Federation for World Peace. An important mission of this association was to create a " Peace University ", which is also in favor of the Dalai Lama.

He wrote in several magazines, among others, in the International Journal for Theology .. A list of his magazine articles to his biographer Joyce Thottacked has compiled.

In his last years, Gregory was a symbol form of a spiritual- theological founded holistic doctrine of a " Holistic Medicine".

Aftereffect

In November 2002, Paulos Mar Gregorios conference was held in Chicago ( USA), under the slogan " A Life of Intimacy with God Close " instead.

Works

• The Syrian Churches in India, Stuttgart: Evangelical publishing business in 1974
• Coptic Christianity, Stuttgart: Evangelical publishing business, in 1973, [ Aus d Ms. trans. ]
• The Freedom of Man, Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1972
• Priests and pastors, Leplay, Michel. - Regensburg: Pustet, 1970