1. John Meyendorff was a leading theologian of the Orthodox Church of America as well as a writer and teacher.
15 Facts About John Meyendorff
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John Meyendorff served as the dean of St Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary in the United States until June 30,1992.
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John Meyendorff was the grandson of Baron General Feofil Egorovich Meyendorff.
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John Meyendorff completed his secondary education in France and his theological education at the St Sergius Orthodox Theological Institute in Paris in 1949.
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John Meyendorff earned the degree of Doctor of Theology in 1958 with a groundbreaking doctoral thesis on the teachings of St Gregory Palamas.
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In France, John Meyendorff was an assistant professor of church history at the St Sergius Institute, and a Fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.
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John Meyendorff was adjunct professor at Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary, both in New York City, and lectured widely on university campuses and at church events.
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John Meyendorff held the position of dean of St Vladimir's Seminary from March 1984 until June 1992.
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John Meyendorff was a major voice in the Orthodox community and worked for the reunion of the three splinter groups into which the Russian Orthodox Church broke up after the Russian Revolution.
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John Meyendorff was instrumental in the establishment of the Orthodox Church in America as an independent entity in 1970, and urged the various Orthodox Churches in the United States, which were ethnically based, to grow closer together in their shared faith.
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John Meyendorff frequently represented the Orthodox tradition in ecumenical gatherings, such as the Uppsala Assembly held in 1968 by the World Council of Churches, during his tenure as chairman of its Faith and Order Commission.
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John Meyendorff's books have been published in a number of languages, including French, German, Italian, Russian, Greek, English, Finnish, Spanish, Dutch, Korean, Japanese, Serbian, Romanian, Polish, Hungarian and Chinese.
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John Meyendorff was a Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and a Guggenheim Fellow.
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John Meyendorff held honorary doctorates from the University of Notre Dame and General Theological Seminary, and was a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.
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In June 1991, Fr John Meyendorff was awarded the Order of St Vladimir, 2nd Class, by Aleksy II, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia.