Polycarpus Augin (Eugene) Aydin

Mor Polycarpus Augin Aydın (born 1971 in Gundukshukro ) is the reigning Metropolitan of the Syrian Orthodox Diocese for the Netherlands.

Life

Polycarpus Augin Aydın was born the son of a Syrian Orthodox family Edip Aydın in the small village Gundukshukro near Nusaybin in Southeastern Anatolia. After his education at the Mor Gabriel's seminar in literature, a traditional Syrian theological and liturgical he made in 1995 with a Bachelor of Divinity at Heythrop College, University of London. As a guest student, he then spent a year at the Oriental Institute of the University of Oxford followed by the Master of Syriac Studies ( including taxes ) under the direction of Dr. Sebastian Brock. After three years of studies at St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary in Crestwood, New York, in 2000 he received the degree of Master of Divinity. The title of his thesis was: The History of the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch in North America: Challenges and Opportunities.

On 7 October 2001 Aydın received the tonsure as a monk ( Dayroyo ) by Patriarch Mor Ignatius Zakka I Iwas at the St. Ephrem Monastery in Damascus and the name Eugene ( Augin ), in honor of Mor Augin Tur Izlo. A year later, on August 4, 2002, he was ordained at the monastery of Mor Gabriel Mor Timotheos Samuel Aktas by a priest. He is currently doing his doctorate at Princeton Theological Seminary in the area of ​​early church history and ecumenism under the direction of Professor Kathleen McVey. The topic of his dissertation is: Comparing the Syriac Order of Monastic Profession ( tekso d- suforo ) with the Order of Baptism ( tekso da'modo ) Both in External Structure and in Theological Themes.

On 15 April 2007, the Patriarch Mor Ignatius Zakka I Iwas consecrated Raban Eugene as Metropolitan with the name of Polycarp in the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul in Saidnaya. Polycarp resided in the monastery of St. Ephrem the Syrian in Glane / Losser in succession by Julius Yeshu Çiçek.