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The Most Reverend Metropolitan PAUL Yazigi of Aleppo

Professor at Saint John of Damascus Faculty of Theology

Preaching at the Church of
Our Lady of Balamand

 

 

Biography

Metropolitan Paul Yazigi was born in 1959 in the costal city of Lattakya (Syria). He lived and studied in the schools of the city, where he  also pursued a Civil Engineering Degree at the University of Tishreen.  During his university studies, he played a leading role in youth ministry and trained choirs for Byzantine Music.

His Eminence studied Theology at the University of Thessaloniki (Greece) where he obtained both a Masters (1989) and a Ph.D. (1992) in Theology, having graduated with excellence. His Thesis  written in Greek was published in a book, Eschatology & Ethics: The Eschatological Foundations of the Life in Christ According to St. John Chrysostom (Thessaloniki, Greece, 1992).

Since 1992, Metropolitan Paul teaches Patristics and Christian Ethics at the Faculty of Theology, University of Balamand. He served as Dean from 1994 till 2001. He was ordained a deacon in 1985 and a priest in 1992.

 

 

 

Publications:

In Greek:
Eschatology & Ethics: The Eschatological Foundations of the Life in Christ According to St. John Chrysostom (Thessaloniki, Greece, 1992).

Click here to see the Epilogue of the Book in French.
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Books Translated to Arabic:
The Power of the Name of Jesus
Arsenios the Cappadocian
The Philokalia - Introduction
The Staretz Samson
The Saint Hilarion

 

 

 

Articles

Globalization
Religious Education in its Ecumenical Dimension in Arabic - French  - Summary in English
Articles on Lent
Weekly Sermons
Who Is the Theologian?
The International Congress of St. Paul & the Enivronment
A Letter of Love, published by the Archdiocese of Lattakyia
Spiritual Selections, published by the Archdiocese of Lattakyia
Exegesis of Psalms: 52-60, published by the Archdiocese of Lattakyia
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