ABOUT THE PRIMATE

ACADEMICAL FORMATION

FONCTIONS IN CHURCH

LANGUAGES

DISTINCTIONS OF HONOUR

 
Metropolita João I
 
METROPOLITAN JOHN the 1st
  • Civil Name; Dr. Mário Manuel Lopes Ribeiro
  • Born at Cepoes – Viseu – Portugal, on                                                    --------     10/05/1965
  • Entrance in the Ortodox Monastery of the Transfiguration, as Aspirant on     ----       12/04/1982
  • Ordinated Subdeacon on                                                                               -----   09/05/1982
  • Received as Novice – Rasophore on                                                           --------18/06/1982
  • Ordinated Deacon on                                                                                   ----    14/07/1984
  • Exaltated Archdeacon on                                                                   --------        28/09/1986
  • Received as Monakos – Perpetual Vows on                                               ------- 25/05/1991
  • Ordinated Priest – Hieromonk on                                                         -----------  26/05/1991
  • Exaltated as Archimandrite on                                                                     -----    26/05/1991
  • Elected Abbot of the Monastery of Transfiguration on                                          - 26/05/1991
  • Consecrated Bishop on                                                                                          14/12/1991
  • Exaltated as Archbishop on                                                                             ---   12/07/1993
  • Appointed Metropolitan Vicar on                                                                ------   07/02/1994
  • Monk of Great Schema – Great Monk on                                         .------------.  21/06/1995
  • Election as Metropolitan Primate of Portugal on                                              .---.  08/06/1997
  •  Enthroned Metropolitan Primate of the Orthodox Catholic Church of Portugal on  - 15/06/1997  
    (BY ACLAMATION OF THE COUNCIL)



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ACADEMICAL FORMATION


* Dogmatic Theology

----1- Doctorate by the Orthodox Theological Academy of Saint Martin of Dume
------Lisbon – Portugal.

----2- Doctorate by the Leonium Orthodoxum Institutum – Paris.
------(Ortodoxo Superior Theological Institut of Saint Lion the Great) - France.

----3- Licence by the Prawoslawne Seminarium Duchowne w Warszawie – Warsaw – Poland. (Orthodox --------------Theological Academy of Warsaw) – Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Poland.

*History of the Church

----1- Doctorate by the Orthodox Theological Academy of Saint Martin of Dume
------Lisbon – Portugal.

* Superior Institute of Navy History– Dom Luis I

----1- Member of Honour – for life – with the Right to All Insignia
------Lisbon – Portugal.
 
* Scripturistic Exegesis

  1. Doctorate by the Orthodox Theological Academy of Saint Martin of Dume
    Lisbon – Portugal.

  2. Doctorate by the Prawoslawne Seminarium Duchowne w Warszawie – Warsaw – Poland. (Orthodox Theological Academy of Warsaw) – Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Poland.
    (HONORIS CAUSA)
* Philosophy
  1. Doctorate by the University of Global Religious Studies  - Massachussets – U.S.A.

 

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CHARGES IN CHURCH


  1. President of the Christian Culture Department.
  2. Rector of the Orthodox Theological Academy of Saint Martin of Dume.
  3. President of the External Relations Department.
  4. President of the National Portuguese Orthodox Youth Counsel.
  5. Representative of the Portuguese Orthodox Youth before Syndesmos.
  6. Metropolitan Vicar.
  7. Professor of Dogmatic Theology in the Academy of Saint Martin of Dume.
  8. Professor de History of the Church in the Academy of Saint Martin of Dume.
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LANGUAGES

  • Portuguese
  • Spanish
  • Italian
  • French
  • English
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DISTINCTIONS OF HONOUR


  1. Great – Master of the Order of Saint Martin of Dume - Lisbon – Portugal.

  2. Great – Master of the Order of Saint Paul – Lisbon – Portugal.

  3. Great – Collar of the Order of Saint Martin of Dume – Lisbon – Portugal.

  4. Great – Collar of the Order of Saint Paul – Lisbon – Portugal.

  5. Great – Cross of the Order of Saint Mary Magdalene – Warsaw – Poland.

  6. Great – Cross of the Order of Saint John – Jerusalem – Israel.

  7. Great – Cross of the Order of Saint Constantin and Saint Helena – Imperial House of Constantinople – U.S.A.

  8. Great – Cross of the Order of Saint Lazar – Milan – Italy.
  9. Great – Cross of the South Star – Royal House of Araucania – Paris – France.
  10. Great – Cross of the Steel Crown - Royal House of Araucania – Paris – France.
  11. Cross of Religious Merit– Diocese de Oropus - Fili – Greece.
  12. Golden Cross of Metropolitan Merit– Lisbon – Portugal.
  13. Great – Cross of the Holy Order of Saint Constantin the Great – Milan – Italy.
  14. Golden Cross of Saint Ambrose of Milan – France.
  15. Benefactor Partner of the Unione Cavalleria Cristiana Internazionale (U.C.C.I.), Legione di Cristo – Italy.
 

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