Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos petitioned Archbishop Spyridon of America, on June 17, 1998, for the canonical discharge of Fr. Protopresbyter John Romanides petitioned Metropolitan Hierotheos (Vlachos) of Nafpaktos, on April 13th, 1998, to be transferred to the Holy Metropolis of Nafpaktos and St. Between 19 Father Romanides served as the pastor of Holy Apostles’ Parish in Haverhill, Massachusetts.įr. He continued to teach even after his retirement. From 1970 on, he also taught at the University of Balamand in Lebanon. He was professor of dogmatics at the University of Thessaloniki from 1970 until his resignation in 1982. He resigned from Holy Cross in 1965 in protest over the removal of Father Georges Florovsky from the faculty by Archbishop Iakovos. Athanasios the Great Orthodox Church in Arlington, Massachusetts, which he helped found and organize. Then in 1959 he was appointed the first priest of St. He was appointed to the parish of Newport, New Hampshire, in 1958. All this time, between 1957 to 1968, he was also a parish priest. He was appointed professor at Holy Cross, Brookline, Massachusetts, where he taught between 19 while continuing his studies and research at the Harvard Divinity School and then at the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Although the dissertation focused on original sin, Christos Yannaras writes: “Romanides succeeded in summarizing the whole of Orthodox dogma, emphasizing the deep gulf separating it from the intellectualist and juridical expressions of Western dogma”. His dissertation, The Ancestral Sin, was accepted and published in 1957, but over the objections of faculty members Panagiotes Trembelas and P. He did his doctoral work at the University of Athens from 1956 to 1957. Sergius Orthodox Theological Institute in Paris (1954-55). After finishing his studies at Yale he was transferred for the summer of 1954 to Holy Trinity Cathedral in New York City until he left for studies at St. Romanides was ordained in 1951 while studying at Yale University Divinity School, and served at Holy Trinity Church in Waterbury, Connecticut, from 1951 till 1954. Romanides served under the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America and the Church of Greece.
Father John Savvas Romanides (1927 – 2001) was a prominent 20th century Orthodox Christian priest, theologian, and writer.
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