Ionuț-Alexandru Tudorie is a Romanian church historian, Orthodox theologian, and Byzantinist. He is Professor of Church History and serves as the Academic Dean and President of

St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary (SVOTS) is an Eastern Orthodox seminary in Yonkers, New York. It is chartered under the State University of New York and accredited by the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and ...

, Yonkers, New York. Tudorie is also affiliated with the

University of Bucharest The University of Bucharest (UB) () is a public university, public research university in Bucharest, Romania. It was founded in its current form on by a decree of Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza to convert the former Princely Academy of Bucharest, P ...

, Romania, where he is a doctoral advisor in Cultural Studies at the Interdisciplinary School of Doctoral Studies (ISDS). His areas of specialization include church history, Byzantine and post-Byzantine history, and theological dialogues between Christian confessions.

Personal life

Tudorie has been married to Denisa Mihaela Tudorie since 2004. She has a career in the technology industry. They have two daughters.

Education

Tudorie graduated from the Bishop Chesarie Theological Seminary of Buzău. He pursued higher education at the

, earning a Bachelor of Arts in Pastoral Theology in 2000 and a Master of Arts in Historical Theology in 2001. In 2008, he completed his first Doctor of Philosophy in Theology with a dissertation titled ''Anglican-Lutheran Theological Dialogue: The Porvoo Common Statement–Orthodox Perspective''. He continued his studies with a Master of Arts in the History of South-Eastern Europe in 2003 and earned a second Doctor of Philosophy in Byzantine History in 2014. His dissertation, ''State-Church Relations in Byzantium under Michael VIII Palaiologos (1259–82)'', received the highest distinction, ''exceptional/summa cum laude''.

Academic career

Tudorie began his academic career at the Department of Orthodox Theology of the University of Bucharest, serving as a Tutor (2002–2004), Teaching Assistant (2004–2008), and Lecturer (2008–2018). He taught courses on Church and Byzantine History, the Middle Ages in South-Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean, and theological controversies between the Latin and Byzantine Churches. In 2019, he was appointed as a doctoral advisor in Cultural Studies at the Interdisciplinary School of Doctoral Studies of the University of Bucharest. Since 2018, Tudorie has been a professor of Church History at

in Yonkers, New York. He was appointed Academic Dean in the same year and became interim President in July 2024. He also serves as the Editor-in-Chief of ''St. Vladimir's Theological Quarterly'' since 2020.

Research

Tudorie's research intersects theology and history, focusing on Byzantine imperial ideology, relations between spiritual and political authorities in Byzantium, contemporary Byzantine historiography,a ccounts of Western travelers to Constantinople in the late 16th century and relations between the Greek Orthodox community and Ottoman rulers (15th–17th centuries), with emphasis on Patriarch Dositheos II of Jerusalem (1669–1707). He has participated in research projects and fellowships, including positions at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Harvard University; the Austrian Academy of Sciences; and the Central European University.

Publications

Books

* ** Preliminary version published in Romanian: *** * *

Edited volumes

* * * ''The Time Has Come: Debates over the OCA Autocephaly Reflected in St. Vladimir’s Quarterly''. Yonkers, NY: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 2020. * * * * * * *

Translations

Selected articles

* "Marginalia on Augerius Gislenius Busbequius’ ''Legationis Turcicae epistolae quatuor'' (1589)". In ''The Manifold Faces of the East'', pp. 55–86. * "Romanian Theological Education in the Interwar Period (1926–1938)". ''Südost-Forschungen'', 82 (2023), pp. 385–402. * "The Eucharistic Controversy between the 'Orthodox' Dositheos II of Jerusalem and the 'Calvinist' Ioannis Karyofyllis (1689–1697)". In ''Confessionalization and/as Knowledge Transfer in the Greek Orthodox Church'', Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2021, pp. 273–327. * "Cassianus, natione Scytha: Revisiting an Old Issue". ''Revue d’histoire ecclésiastique'', 115 (2020), pp. 5–33. * "Academic Research, Cultural Diplomacy and Politics: the French Institute of Byzantine Studies in Bucharest (1937–1947)". In ''L’Apport des Assomptionnistes français aux études byzantines'', pp. 169–211.

Awards and honors

* 2017: His monograph ''Autoritatea imperială în criză'' was awarded the Nicolae Iorga Prize by the Romanian Society for Historical Sciences. * 2019: The MA thesis supervised by Tudorie received the Award of the Senate of the University of Bucharest for the Best MA Thesis in Humanities and the Great Award for the Best MA Thesis of the Academic Year.

Professional memberships

* International Association for Patristic Studies * International Orthodox Theological Association (Co-chair of the Romanian Orthodoxy Group) * Romanian Society for Byzantine Studies * Romanian Association for the History of Religions * Societas Oecumenica * Byzantine Studies Association of North America

References

External links

Faculty Directory at St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary

University of Bucharest

Profile at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection

2024 CV
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