Dumitru Stăniloae: Biography, Facts and Career

Dumitru Stăniloae (Romanian: [duˈmitru stəniˈlo̯aje]; 29 November [O.S. 16 November] 1903 – 4 October 1993), also Anglicized as Demetrius Staniloae, was a Romanian Orthodox Christian priest, theologian and professor. He worked for over 45 years on a comprehensive Romanian translation of the Greek Philokalia, a collection of writings on prayer by the Church Fathers, together with the hieromonk Arsenius Boca, who brought manuscripts from Mount Athos. His book, The Dogmatic Orthodox Theology (1978), made him one of the best-known Christian theologians of the second half of the 20th century. He also produced commentaries on earlier Christian thinkers, such as St Gregory of Nyssa, Saint Maximus the Confessor, and St Athanasius of Alexandria. He was canonized as a Saint on 4 February 2025 in the Romanian Orthodox Church, but he is highly venerated in all of the Orthodox World for his theological works and impact on the collective faith of the Church. He is a controversial figure outside the Orthodox Church view, in his early activity as a journalist he promoted antisemitism and praised totalitarian figures such as Ion Antonescu and Adolf Hitler, before and during World War II. He was recruited by the Securitate under the codename "Văleanu Ion" as an informant following his release from prison in 1963 but he did not cooperate. Accused of being a "mystical element with hostile concepts" he would be removed from the network of informants in 1973. He is a saint of the Romanian Orthodox Church and was officially canonized on 4 February 2025.

Quick facts about Dumitru Stăniloae

• Full name: Dumitru Stăniloae
• Born: 1903-11-29
• Nationality: Romania
• Known as: Author
• Wikidata ID: Q175321

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