His Eminence Alexander (Golitzin) Archbishop of Dallas, the South and the Bulgarian Diocese

Special Fields: Eastern Christian theology, especially the early Byzantine tradition, with particular interest in the history of spirituality and, recently, in the continuities and parallels with prior and contemporary Jewish traditions.

Birthdate: May 27, 1948

Education: 1966–1970 University of California at Berkeley
1970–1973 St. Vladimir’s Seminary, Crestwood NY
1973–1980 Oxford University, England

Degrees: B.A. 1970 English literature, U.C. Berkeley
M.Div.1973 St. Vladimir’s Seminary
D.Phil. 1981 Oxford University

Academic Experience:

1982–1987 Visiting Lecturer, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA
1985–1988 Visiting Lecturer, Stanford University
1986–1988 Visiting Lecturer, U.C. Berkeley
1989–1994 Assistant Professor, Marquette University
1994–1995 Visiting Professor, St. Vladimir’s Seminary
1996–2004 Associate Professor, Marquette University
2004–2012 Professor, Marquette University

I. PUBLICATIONS:

A. Books
1. The Sacred Athlete (co-authored with Richard Blum) Baltimore: University Press of America, 1991 (504 pp. —my contribution is only about 10% of the total, and even that Richard worked over).
2. The Eros of Repentance: Four Talks on Athonite Monasticism by Abbot George Capsanis (trans. from modern Greek, 3 pp. introduction) Newbury MA: Praxis Press, 1992 (75 pp.).
3. The Living Witness of the Holy Mountain: Contemporary Voices from Mt. Athos (trans. from French and Modem Greek, introductory essay) South Canaan PA: St. Tikhon’s Seminary Press, 1996 (312 pp.).
4. St. Symeon the New Theologian on the Mystical Life: the Ethical Discourses

• Vol. 1: The Church and the Last Things, St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press:
  Crestwood NY, 1995 (193 pp.).
• Vol. 2: On Virtue and the Christian Life, SVS Press: Crestwood NY, 1996
  (189 pp.).
• Vol. 3: Life, Times, and Theology, SVS Press, Crestwood NY: 1997 (220
  pp.). Note: the latter volume has also been translated into Romanian and
  included with the Romanian translation of the Discourses by I. Ica:
  Sfantul Simeon Noul Teolog: Discursuri theologice si etice, Editura
  Deisis: Sibiu, Romania 1998, pp. 407-549.

5. Historical Dictionary of the Orthodox Church (with Michael Prokurat and
Michael Petersen), Scarecrow Press: Latham MD and London, 1996 (437 pp., my contribution was about one third).
6. Et Introibo ad Altare Dei: The Mystagogy of Dionysius Areopagites, with special reference to his predecessors in the Eastern Christian Tradition for the series (no.59) Analekta Vlatadon, Moni Vlatadon, Thessalonica: Patriarchal Institute of Patristic Studies, 1994 (447 pp.).
7. Mistagogia: Experienta lui Dumnezeu in Orthodoxie. Romanian translation of selected published and unpublished essays, tr. loan lea, Jr. Editura Deisis: Sibiu, Romania 1998 (271 pp.).
8. Mystagogy: A Monastic Reading of Dionysius Areopagita, edited by Bogdan G. Bucur, Collegeville MN, Cistercian Publications, 2013.

B. Articles and Chapters in Books (for review journals, conference acts, or other collections)
1. “On the Other Hand,” St. Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly (1990) 303-321.
2. “The Mysticism of Dionysius Areopagita: Platonist or Christian?” Mystics
Quarterly (Sept. 1993) 98-114 (Romanian translation in Mistagogia 87-105).
3. “Anarchy versus Hierarchy? Dionysius Areopagites, Symeon the New
Theologian, Nicetas Stethatos and their common roots in ascetical tradition,” St. Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly (1994) 131-179 (Romanian translation in
Mistagogia 133-183).
4. “Echoes of Another Christendom: Church Historical Reflections on the Balkan Conflict,” in The Balkan Conflict. Ed. Raju Thomas and H.R. Friman, Garland Press (1995) 51-77.
5. “Liturgy and Mysticism, the Experience of God in Orthodox Christianity,” Pro Ecclesia VIII.2 (1999) 31-58 (Romanian translation of the longer, original form in Mistagogia 23-86).
6. “Temple of God and Throne of Glory: Pseudo-Macarius and Purity of Heart,” for Purity of Heart in Early Ascetic and Monastic Literature, ed. H. Luckman and Linda Kunzler, Liturgical Press: Collegeville MN, 1999, 107-129.
7. “Anathema! Some Reflections on the Recent Memorandum of Mt. Athos
regarding the Eastern-Oriental Orthodox Dialogue,” St. Nerses Theological
Review 3.2-3 (1998) 103-117.
8. “A Contemplative and a Liturgist: Father Georges Florovsky on the Corpus
Dionysiacum,” St. Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly 43.2 (1999) 131-161
(Romanian translation in Mistagogia 106-132).
9. “Review Essay: Paul Rorem, Pseudo-Dionysius: A Commentary on the Texts and an Introduction to their Influence,” Mystics Quarterly XXI.l (1995) 28-38.
10. “A Testimony to Christianity as Transfiguration: The Macarian Homilies and Orthodox Spirituality,” in Orthodox and Wesleyan Spirituality, ed. S. T.
Kimbrough, Jr., Crestwood NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2002, 129-156.
11. “‘Earthly Angels and Heavenly Men’: The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha,
Nicetas Stethatos, and the Tradition of ‘Interiorized Apocalyptic’ in Eastern
Christian Ascetical and Mystical Literature,” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 55 (2001) 125-153.
12. “Adam, Eve, and Seth: Pneumatological Reflections on an Unusual Image in Gregory of Nazianzus’ Fifth Theological Oration,” Anglican Theological Review 83.3 (2001) 537-46; reprinted in R. B. Slocum, ed., Engaging the Spirit: Essays on the Life and Theology of the Holy Spirit, NY: Church Publishing, 2001, 167- 76.
13. (co-author with A. A. Orlov) “‘Many Lamps are Lightened from the One’:
Paradigms of the Transformational Vision in the Macarian Homilies,” Vigiliae
Christianae 55 (2001) 281-99.
14. “Revisiting the ‘Sudden’: Epistle III in the Corpus Dionysiacum,” Studia
Patristica 37 (2001) 482-91.
15. “Ho Dionysios ho Areopagitis sta erga tou hagiou Grigoriou tou Palama: Peri tou erimatos mias Christologikis epanorthoseos and allon schetikon pragmaton,” in O Agios Grigorios o Palamas stin Historia kai to Paron, Mt. Athos: Monastery of Vatopediou, 2000, 620-643. In English as: “Dionysius Areopagites in the Works of St. Gregory Palamas: On the Question of a ‘Christological Corrective’ and Related Matters,” in St. Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly 46.2-3 (2002) 163-90.
16. “‘The Demons Suggest an Illusion of God’s Glory in a Form’: Controversy over the Divine Body and Vision of Glory in Some Fourth- and Fifth-Century
Monastic Literature,” Studia Monastica 44.1 (2002) 13-43.
17. “Dionysius Areopagita: A Christian Mysticism?,” Pro Ecclesia XII.2 (2003) 161- 213.
18. “Recovering the Glory of Adam: Divine Light Traditions in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Christian Ascetical Literature in Fourth-Century Mesopotamia,” in The Dead Sea Scrolls as Background to Postbiblical Judaism and Early Christianity. Papers from the Acts of the International Conference at St. Andrews. J.R. Davila, editor. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2003; pp. 275-308.
19. “Review Essay: The Pilgrim’s Tale,” ed. A. Pentkovsky, tr. A. Smith. NY:
Paulist, 1999. Spiritus 2.2 (2002) 236-242.
20. “The Form of God and Vision of the Glory: More Reflections on the
Anthropomorphite Controversy of A.D. 399,” in Abba: The Tradition of
Orthodoxy in the West. Festschrift for Bishop Kallistos (Ware) of Diokleia, ed. A. Louth and J. Behr. Crestwood NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2003; 273-297.
21. “The Place of the Presence of God: Aphrahat of Persia’s Portrait of the Christian Holy Man. An Essay in Honor of Archimandrite Aimlianos of the Monastery of Simonos Petras, Mount Athos,” Synaxis Evcharistias: Charisteria eis Timen tou Gerontos Aimilianou; Holy Monastery of Simonos Petras, Mount Athos: Indiktos Press, (Athens: 2003), 391-447.22.
22. “Il Corpo di Christo: Simeone il nuovo teologo sulla vita spirituale e la chiesa gerarchica,” in Simeone il Nuovo Teologo e il monachesimo a Constantinopoli: Atti del X Convegno ecumenico internazionale di spiritualita ortodossa, sezione bizantina; ed. Sabino Chiala and Lisa Cramaschi. Edizione Qiqajon: Comunita di Bose, 2003; pp. 255-278.
23. “‘Suddenly, Christ’: The Place of Negative Theology in the Mystagogy of
Dionysius Areopagita,” in Mystics: Presence and Aporia, edited by Michael
Kessler and Christian Sheppard. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003; pp. 8-37.
24. “Topos Theou: The Monastic Elder as Theologian, and as Theology. An
Appreciation of Archimandrite Aimilianos, Abbot of the Monastery of Simonos
Petras, Mount Athos, 1973-2000″, in Mount Athos the Sacred Bridge: The
Spirituality of the Holy Mountain, ed. Graham Speake and Dimitri Conomos.
Oxford/Berlin/Bern/NY: Peter Lang, 2005; pp. 201-242.
25. “‘I See Your Bridal Chamber Adorned’: An Eastern Orthodox Reflection on the Eschaton and the ‘Pattern’ of Divine Worship,” in A Heart for the Future: Essays on the Christian Hope, Robert Slocum, editor. NY: Church Publishing, 2004, pp. 82-95.
26. “The Image and Glory of God in Jacob of Serug’s Homily, ‘On that Chariot that Ezekiel the Prophet Saw,’” St. Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly 47.3-4 (2003), pp. 323-364.
27. “Scriptural Images of the Church: An Eastern Orthodox Reflection,” in One Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic: Ecumenical Reflections on the Church. T. Grdzelidze, editor. Faith and Order Papers no.197. World Council of Churches Publications; Geneva: 2005; pp. 255-266.
28. “Heavenly Mysteries: Themes from Apocalyptic Literature in the Macarian
Homilies and Selected other Fourth-Century Ascetical Writers,” Apocalyptic
Thought in Early Christianity, edited Robert J. Daly, Baker Academic, 2009, pp. 174-192.
29. “Making the Inside Like the Outside: Toward a Monastic Sitz im Leben for the Syriac Apocalypse of Daniel,” in To Train His Soul in Books: Syriac Asceticism in Early Christianity (Festschrift for Sidney Griffith), ed. M. Blanchard and R. D. Young; Washington D.C.: Catholic University of America Press (August 2011).

C. Book Reviews (for Review Journals)
1. Jaroslav Pelikan, Imago Dei: The Byzantine Apologia for Icons, Princeton, 1990. In Patristics (December 1992) 9-10.
2. Aiden Nicols, Rome and the Eastern Churches, Liturgical Press, 1992. In St. Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly 36:4 (1993) 381-84.
3. Paul Blowers, Exegesis and Spiritual Pedagogy in Maximus the Confessor: an Investigation of the Quaestiones ad Thalassium, in Cistercian Studies (I have lost the reference — it came out sometime in 1994 or 1995, I think).
4. Paul Rorem, Pseudo-Dionysius: A Commentary on the Texts and an Introduction to their Influence, NY/Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. Lutheran Quarterly 9 (1995) 331-33.
5. Brian Croke, Christian Chronicles and Byzantine History, 4th-6th Centuries, Variorum, 1992. Journal of Early Christian Studies 3.2 (1995) 229-31.
6. Alexander Webster, The Price of Prophecy: Orthodox Churches on Peace,
Freedom and Security, Eerdmans: Grand Rapids MI, 1995. St. Vladimir’s
Theological Quarterly 41.4 (1997) 371-78.
7. John Wortley, The Edifying Tales of Paul of Monembasia, Cistercian Studies 159, Cistercican Press: Kalamazoo, 1996. For the Greek Orthodox Theological Review 42 (1997) 171-73.
8. Archimandrite Vassileios of Iveron, Beauty and Hesychia in Athonite Life;
Europe and the Holy Mountain; Monastic Life as True Marriage, Alexander
Press: Montreal, 1996. For the Greek Orthodox Theological Review 42 (1997) 173-75.
9. Hilarion Alfeyev, The Spiritual World of St. Isaac the Syrian, Kalamazoo:
Cistercian Publications, 2000. In St. Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly 46.2-3
(2002) 285-90.
10. Hilarion Alfeyev, St. Symeon the New Theologian and Orthodox Tradition,
Oxford/NY: Oxford University Press, 2000. St. Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly 46.2-3 (2002) 291-300.
11. John Chryssavgis, Soul Mending: The Art of Spiritual Direction, Brookline MA: Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 2000. St. Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly 47.1 (2003) 121-26.
12. Hannah K. Harrington, Holiness: Rabbinic Judaism and the Graeco-Roman World, London/NY: Routledge, 2001. St. Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly.

D. Encyclopedia and Dictionary Entries
1. For the Biographical Dictionary o/Christian Theologians, ed. Patrick Carey and Joseph Lienhard, Westport CN: Greenwood Press, 2000, the following entries:

• Nicholas Afanasieff (pp.8-9);
• Dionysius Areopagita (152-54);
• Dositheus of Jerusalem (158-59);
• Philaret Drozdov (160-62);
• Georges Florovsky (195-97);
• Vladimir Lossky (329-30);
• Cyril Lucaris (333-34);
• John Meyendorff(361-63);
• Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain (384-85);
• Gregory Palamas (401-2);
• Alexander Schmemann (455-56);
• Dumitru Staniloae (476-78);
• Symeon the New Theologian (486-87);
• Paissy Velichkovsky (518-19).

2. For the Encyclopedia of Monasticism, ed. William Johnston, Chicago/London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2001; the following entries:

• Dionysius the Areopagite, vol. 1:385-87;
• The Macarian Homilies, vol. 11:799-800;
• Spirituality: Eastern Christian, vol. 11:1185-93.

E. Articles, Book Chapters, and Reviews Forthcoming
1. Mystagogy: A Monastic Reading of Dionysius Areopagita. Liturgical Press/
Cistercian Publications (forthcoming in 2014).

F. Research Projects
1. Agreement (oral only) to turn the essay on “Liturgy and Mysticism” into a book for St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press.
2. The expansion of the long article on “The Vision of God and Form of the Glory” into a book-length study, focusing particularly on the continuities linking Second Temple apocalyptic literature with the main currents of Eastern Christian ascetic and later monastic spirituality.
3. Complete the editing and correction of my draft translation of Jacob of Serug’s “On the Chariot that Ezekiel the Prophet Saw,” equip with footnotes, introduction, bibliography, and publish it.
4. Complete and publish my partial translation of the untranslated Macarian
Homilies.
5. Various encyclopedia articles (at least two or three – which I dread)
6. Work up papers on St. Benedict’s vision (NAPS ’02), Hesychasm and Hekalot literature (SBL 2002), and “Heavenly Mysteries” (Brookline 2004) into publishable articles.
7. Select and edit prior published articles for publication in book form (oral
agreement with Gorgias Press).

II. PARTICIPATION IN PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS AND PAPERS PRESENTED
1990 Chaired section on “Augustine and the Greek Fathers,” Augustine Conference at Marquette University, October.
1992 Paper read: “The Mysticism of Dionysius Areopagita: Platonist or Christian” at section on mysticism, at the annual Medieval Conference, Kalamazoo, May.
1993 Paper read: “Echoes of Another Christendom: Some Church Historical
Reflections on the Balkan Conflict,” at the Conference on the Balkan Crisis,
Marquette University, May.
1993 Paper read: “Exaiphnes: the role of the “sudden” in the third Epistle of the Dionysian corpus,” at the annual meeting of the North American Patristics
Society at Loyola, Chicago, in June.
1993 Paper read: “A Contemplative and a Liturgist: Reflections on Florovsky’s Placement of the Corpus Areopagiticum among the Byzantine Ascetic and Mystical Writers.” Conference in memory of Father Georges Vassilievitch Florovsky at U.M., Ann Arbor, October.
1993 Seminar led and paper read on the subject: “Liturgy and Mysticism: the
experience of God in Orthodox Christianity,” for the series of faculty seminars
entitled “Practices of Transcendence” at Brown University, Providence RI.
November.
1993 Paper read: “Anarchy versus Hierarchy? Epistle VIII of the Dionysian Corpus and Symeon the New Theologian’s ‘Letter on Confession.’” Byzantine Studies Conference, Princeton University, November.
1995 Paper read: “The Reception of the Dionysian Corpus in Eastern Christianity,” at the Dionysius Section of the Medieval Studies Conference, Kalamazoo, May.
1995 Paper read: “Dionysius Areopagita and Symeon New Theologian: Two Test Cases of the Tension between Charismatic and Hierarchical Authority in
Orthodox Christianity,” for the Orthodox Theological Society of America,
meeting at St. Vladimir’s Seminary, June.
1995 Paper read: “Singles, Messalians, and Church Order: The Background to the Figure of the Monk in the Corpus Dionysiacum,” for the Second American Syriac Symposium, Catholic University, June.
1996 Paper read: “The Form of God and Vision of the Glory: The Anthropomorphite Dispute of A.D. 399,” for the North American Patristics Society, Loyola Chicago, June.
1996 Paper read: expanded version of above for the Midwest Patristics Seminar, University of Chicago, November.
1997 Paper read: “Wedding Feast and Holy War: Macarian Homily 50, Collection I, and a Modest Tribute to Robert Murray and Columba Stewart,” at the North American Patristics Society, Loyola University, Chicago, June.
1997 Paper read: “Nicetas Stethatos, Apocalyptic, and the Old Testament
Pseudepigrapha,” for the American Byzantine Studies Conference, U.W.
Madison, September.
1997 Paper read: “Where the Rubber Meets the Road: The Problem of ‘Sacramental Economy’ for Orthodox-Roman Catholic Rapproachment,” at the North American Orthodox Catholic Consultation, discussion on Baptism. Fall meeting, Washington D.C., October.
1998 Paper read: “Anathema! Some Thoughts on the Athonite Memorandum of 1994, together with a Possibly Helpful Historical Tour,” for the annual Eastern Orthodox-Oriental Orthodox Conference, St. Vladimir’s Seminary, February.
1998 Paper read: “The Image and Glory of God in Jacob of Serug’s Homily, ‘On the Chariot that Ezekiel the Prophet Saw’: Some Reflections on a ‘Monophysite’ Christology,” for the North American Patristics Society, Loyola University, Chicago, June.
1999 Paper read: “A Testimony to Christianity as Transfiguration: The Macarian Homilies and Orthodox Spirituality,” for the Consultation on Orthodox and Methodist Spirituality, January.
1999 Paper read: “Dionysius Areopagita: A Christian Mystic?,” for the Lumen Christi Institute, University of Chicago, February.
1999 Paper read: “Earthly Angels and Heavenly Men: Nicetas Stethatos, the Tradition of ‘Interiorized Apocalyptic,’ and the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha,” for the Dumbarton Oaks Symposium on Byzantine Eschatology, Washington DC, April 30th–May 2nd.
1999 Paper read: “‘Suddenly, Christ’: The Place of Negative Theology in the
Mystagogy of Dionysius Areopagites,” for the conference, MYSTICS,
organized by David Tracey and Michael Fishbane at the University of Chicago, May 13th –15th.
1999 Paper read: “Two late Fifth Century, Syrian Christian Responses to the
Merkavah Tradition: Jacob of Serug ‘On the Chariot that Ezekiel the Prophet
Saw’ and the Corpus Dionysiacum,” for the Third American Syriac Symposium, Notre Dame University, June 17th–19th.
1999 Paper read: “Revisiting the ‘Sudden’: Epistle III in the Corpus Dionysiacum,” communication at the XIIIth International Patristics Conference at Oxford, August 16th–21st.
1999 Paper read: “The Form of God and the Vision of the Glory: Reflections on the Anthropomorphite Controversy of A.D. 399,” master theme for the XIIIth International Patristics Conference at Oxford, August 16th–21st.
1999 Paper read: “Ho Dionysios ho Areopagitis sta erga tou hagiou Grigoriou tou Palama: Peri tou erimatos mias Christologikis epanorthoseos and allon
schetikon pragmaton,” the Second Conference on St. Gregory Palamas,
sponsored by the Monastery of Vatopedi, at Limossol, Cyprus, November 5th–7th.
1999 Paper read: “‘The Demons suggest an Illusion of God’s Glory in a Form’: Controversy over the Divine Body in Late Fourth and Early Fifth Century Monasticism,” for the section: “Jewish and Early Christian Mysticism,” Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, Boston MA, November 21st.
2000 Paper read: “Heavenly Worship and Ascent to Heaven: The Monastic Sitz im Leben of the Corpus Dionysiacum”; at the request of the Graduate School in Theology of the Catholic University of America, at CUA, Washington D.C., April 3rd.
2000 Paper read: “Adam, Eve, and Seth: Pneumatological Reflections on an Unusual Image in Gregory of Nazianzus’ Fifth Theological Oration,” for the North American Orthodox Catholic Consultation, discussions on the filioque, Fall meeting, Washington D.C., October.
2000 Attended: sections on “Eastern Orthodox Thought” and “Jewish and Early Christian Mysticism” at the Society of Biblical Literature/American Association of Religion annual meeting, Nashville TN, November 17th–20th.
2001 Paper read: “The Inner Throne: Aphrahaat of Persia’s Demonstration XIV.35 and his Adaptation of a Theme from Apocalyptic Literature,” North American Patristics Society Meeting, Loyola, Chicago, May.
2001 “Response” to Thomas Potvin, O.P., “Yves Congar on the Missio ad Gentes” at the Yves Congar Ecumenical Colloquium, Catholic Theological Society of America, annual meeting, Milwaukee, June 8th.
2001 Paper read: “Recovering ‘all the glory of Adam’: Themes from the Dead Sea Scrolls in the 4th Century Christian Ascetical Writers of Mesopotamia,”
International Conference on the Dead Sea Scrolls, St. Andrews University, St. Andrews, Scotland, June 26-28.
2001 “Response” to the paper by Brian Daley, “The Fulness of the Saving God: Cyril of Alexandria on the Holy Spirit,” for the North American Orthodox Catholic Consultation, discussions on the filioque, Fall meeting, Washington D.C., October 13th.
2001 “Response” to Matthias Henze’s Recent Edition of the Syriac Apocalypse of Daniel,” for the Christian Apocrypha Section, Society of Biblical Literature annual meeting, Denver, November 19th.
2001 “A Definition of Christian Mysticism,” contributing to “A Collage of Working Definitions of Mysticism,” Roundtable Discussion of the Jewish and Early Christian Mysticism Section, Society of Biblical Literature annual meeting, Denver, November 20th.
2002 Paper read: “Cumque [anima] in Dei lumine raptitur super se, in interioribus ampliatur: A Modestly Revisionist Suggestion Regarding the Background for the Idea of the Expansion of the Soul in Gregory the Great’s Life of Benedict,” North American Patristics Society annual meeting, Loyola, Chicago, May 26th.
2002 Paper read: “On Reading and Teaching the Fathers: Some Personal
Reflections,” Orthodox Theological Society of America annual meeting,
Brookline MA, June 2nd.
2002 Paper read: “The Body of Christ: Spiritual Life and the Hierarchical Church in St. Symeon the New Theologian,” Xth International Conference on Orthodox Spirituality, at Bose, Italy, September 15th–21st.
2002 Paper read: “‘Force your intellect into the Heart’: Some Parallels between the XIVth Century Byzantine Hesychasts and the Rabbinic-era Hekhalot Texts,” for the Section on Jewish and Early Christian Mysticism, Society of Biblical Literature annual meeting, Toronto, November 24th.
2003 Paper read: “Topos Theou: A Theological Appreciation of Archimandrite
Aimilianos (Vapheides), Abbot of Simonos Petras Monastery, Mount Athos
(1973-2000); for the conference, Mount Athos, The Sacred Bridge: The
Spirituality of the Holy Mountain, at Madingley Hall, Cambridge University,
United Kingdom, March 1st.
2003 Paper read: “‘The Form of His Glory’: Elements from Jewish Mystical
Anthropomorphism in Early Christian Monastic Literature,” 14th International
Conference on Patristic Studies, Oxford University, August 18th–23rd.
2004 Paper read: “The Revelation of Heavenly Mysteries,” at a conference on Apocalypticism in Early Christianity, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of
Theology, Brookline MA, October. 2005 Paper read: “Church and Temple: Some Continuities in Early Syriac Ascetical Literature,” at a conference in honor of the republication of Robert Murray’s Symbols of Church and Kingdom, Princeton, May 5th.
2005 Paper read: “Report on Previous Discussions of Primacy,” at the Roman Catholic-Eastern Orthodox North American Consultation bi-annual meeting, June 1st.
2005 Paper read: “The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha and Eastern Christian
Ascetical Literature,” Pseudepigrapha Section, Society of Biblical Literature
Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, November 21st.
2007 Paper read: “Sinai Interiorized: The Sinai Theophany in Some Fourth-Century Ascetical Writers,” at The Reception of Sinai in Jewish and Christian Tradition, Durham, England.
2007 Paper read: “The Monks’ Merkavah,” at Pro Oriente, Sibiu, Romania, June.
2008 Paper read: “The Vision of Dorotheos: An Early Fourth-Century Christian Ascent to Heaven,” at the section for Jewish and Early Christian Mysticism, Society of Biblical Literature annual meeting, Boston, November.
2012 Symposium: The Holy Icon of St. Elizabeth greeting the Mother of God, the sanctity of life, exegesis on the “greeting” at Villanova University, November 28.
2014 “The Question of Baptism in Ecumenical Relations” at Lourdes College, March 23.
2014 “Force Your Mind to Descend into the Heart”: Some Resemblances between Byzantine Hesychasm and Merkavah Mysticism, the 2nd Annual Meyendorff Lecture at St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary, September 14.
2018 “The Place of the Presence of God: Aphrahat of Persia’s Portrait of the
Christian Holy Man,” at the 18th Annual Saints Cyril and Methodius Lecture
sponsored by the Byzantine Catholic Seminary, May 16. 2018 “Wedding Feast and Holy War: Macarian Homily I.50 and Aphrahat” for the conference Great Romania – ‘The Garden of the Mother of God’ and the ‘patriarch’ of Romanian Theology and Spirituality, Father Dumitru Stăniloae, at
the Archdiocese of Timișoara, October 1.
2019 “The ‘Adjusted Merkavah’ of the Monks: Some Remarks, with Illustrations, on the Visionary Tradition as Reflected in Monastic Literature, Together with Brief Notes on the Pitfalls of Studying Mystical Traditions” at the inaugural conference of the International Orthodox Theological Association at the Archdiocese of Iași, January 10.

III. TEACHING
I have taught the following courses at Marquette over the period fall 1989 to spring 1999 (less a year away at St. Vladimir’s Seminary as Visiting Professor, 1994-1995 and my sabbatical years, 1997–1998, and 2004–2005):
1. Theology 001 ( I have lost count—a least an average of once a semester for the past sixteen years)
2. Theology 171: The Eastern Church. (thirteen or fourteen times—now 137 in official course numbering)
3. Theology 251: The Age of the Fathers (once)
4. Theology 252: Byzantine Theology (thrice)
5. Theology 262: Monastic Theology (four times)
6. Theology 383: Symeon the New Theologian and later Byzantine Mysticism
(once)
7. Theology 383: Dionysius the Areopagite (twice)
8. Theology 383: Early Christian Ascetical and Mystical Writers (thrice)
9. Theology 383: Byzantine Ascetical and Mystical Writers (thrice)

IV. COMMITTEES AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE
1. Fall 1989 to spring 1994 and Fall 1995 to Spring 1999: Pere Marquette Lecture Committee.
2. Fall 1991 to spring 1993: Research Committee.
3. Fall 1992 to spring 1993 and Fall 1995 to Spring 1997: M.A. Committee (no university service, unless one counts the weekly series of talks and Bible studies I held for Orthodox students at Marquette and interested adults from fall 1990 to spring 1994, and from fall 1995 to spring 1998)
4. Fall 2000 (I think) to present: MA Exam Committee
5. Fall 2002: Graduate Applications Committee
6. Fall 2005 to present: Graduate Committee

V. MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
Society of Biblical Literature
International Society for Neoplatonic Studies
National Committee on Byzantine Studies
North American Patristics Society
Orthodox Theological Society of America

VI. HONORS, AWARDS, GRANTS
1991 Summer Fellowship, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C.
1994 Internal Research Grant, Marquette University

VII. NEW CAREER
2012 Consecrated Bishop of the Bulgarian Diocese, Orthodox Church in America, May 5.
2016 Elected as Bishop of the Diocese of the South, Orthodox Church in America in addition to duties as Bishop of the Bulgarian Diocese, March 30.
2017 Elevated to Archbishop, March 30.