Arch. Gregorios Ioannides, Assistant Professor

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Archim. Gregorios Ioannides is Assοciate Professor in Liturgical studies. He teaches courses in Liturgy in the undergraduate Theology program at the Theological School of the Church of Cyprus. He is also in charge of the Library and Head of the Office of Pastoral Care. He currently acts as a Protosyngelos in the Holy Metropolis of Trimithous. He is a member of the Throne Committee and Head of the Ecclesiastical Deaconry and Enlightenment Office of the Metropolis, which is responsible for the initiatives of the Women’s Christian Association and the organization of readings of the Bible, speeches, lectures, conferences, student conferences and camps. Apart from his duties in pastoral and social work, he represents the Holy Metropolis of Trimithous in Synodic Committees and in the Committee of the Department of Antiquities for the preservation of the cultural heritage of the metropolitan area. 

Studies:

Post-doctoral research, Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies, Harvard University, Washington DC, 2001. Thesis Title: «The byzantine liturgical tradition in the geographical area of Cyprus: Cypriot manuscript euchologies»

PhD in Theology, ‘Liturgical’ Orientation/Direction, Scienze Ecclesiastiche Orientali (Eastern Ecclesiastical Sciences), Pontificio Istituto Orientale (The Pontifical Oriental Institute), 2000. Thesis Title: «Il manoscritto Barberini greco 390: edizione e commento liturgico»

Master in Theology, Scienze Ecclesiastiche Orientali (Eastern Ecclesiastical Sciences), Pontificio Istituto Orientale (The Pontifical Oriental Institute), 1997. Thesis Title: “Il codice liturgico Barberini greco 390: data, provenienza, contenuto e uso”. 

Bachelor of Theology, School of Theololgy , National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 1990

Member:

• Societas Orientalium Liturgiarum
• Cypriot Studies Company
• Association of Theologians of O.E.L.M.E.C. 

Research Interests:

• History and Theology of Christian worship.
• The history of the liturgical act of the major liturgical centres, and, in particular, of the Church of Cyprus.
• Liturgical sources and manuscript research.
• Archival work, research, restoration and preservation of the ecclesiastical heritage of the Holy Metropolis of Trimithous (Early Christian basilicas, archaeological churches “Table B”, frescoes, icons, manuscripts, early printed books, ecclesiastical objects, publications, excavations, research programs and collaborations, conferences-workshops, periodical exhibitions of ecclesiastical heirlooms etc.).

Selected Publications:

• A. Ioannides, Il manoscritto Barberini greco 390: edizione e commento liturgico, (Pontificio Istituto Orientale, Excerpta ex Dissertatione ad Doctoratum) Roma 2000 (σσ. 87).
• Του ιδίου, Stefano Lusignano: Chorograffia et breve historia universale dell’isola de Cipro principiando al tempo di Noè per in sino al 1572, (Κυπριολογικὴ Βιβλιοθήκη 10Α) Λευκωσία 2004 (σσ. 276).
• “La Constitutio o Bulla Cypria Alexandri Papae IV del Barberinianus graecus 390”, Orientalia Christiana Periodica 66 (2000) 335-372.
• «“Τάξις γινομένη περὶ ἀντιμινσίων” στὸ κυπριακὸ εὐχολόγιο Barberini greco 390», Κυπριακαὶ Σπουδαὶ 61-62 (2000-2001) 303-350 (ἔκδοση τὸ 2003).
• «Ὁ κυπριακὸς λειτουργικὸς κώδικας τῆς Βιβλιοθήκης τῆς Ἱερᾶς Μονῆς Ἁγίου Ἰωάννου τοῦ Θεολόγου (Πάτμος) 647», Ἐπετηρίδα Κέντρου Μελετῶν Ἱερᾶς Μονῆς Κύκκου 6 (2004) 509-540.
• «Ἡ τάξη ἐγκαινίων ναοῦ στὰ κυπριακὰ χειρόγραφα εὐχολόγια», Ἐπετηρίδα Κέντρου Μελετῶν Ἱερᾶς Μονῆς Κύκκου 7 (2006) 335-414.
• “Il rito della dedicazione di una chiesa negli eucologi ciprioti”, Bollettino della Badia Greca di Grottaferrata III s. 5 (2008) 147-177.
• “Un esempio di liturgia comparata: il rito per la consacrazione degli antiminsia negli eucologi ciprioti”, Bollettino della Badia Greca di Grottaferrata III s. 6 (2009) 119-141.