His
Beatitude Patriarch Daniel expressed his sorrow and offered his
condolences following the repose last Thursday of Fr Boris Bobrinskoy at
the age of 95.
Father Boris Bobrinskoy – Eminent professor of theology and shepherd of souls: full text
We learned with great sorrow of the passing to the eternal places of
Father Boris Bobrinskoy, a prominent figure in Orthodox theology in
France and everywhere, who was a professor and dean of the Saint Sergius
Institute of Orthodox Theology in Paris.
Father Boris, from a family of Russian emigration in the years after
the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, marked Orthodox theology, and not
only, with his writings translated today into several languages.
For more than fifty years he was a professor of dogmatic theology,
leaving behind essential writings for twentieth-century Orthodox
theology on the mystery of the Holy Trinity, the mystery of the Church
or the mystery of the Person of the Holy Spirit mostly translated into
Romanian.
In 2002, Father Boris Bobrinskoy received the title of Doctor Honoris
Causa of the Faculty of Theology in Cluj-Napoca, in recognition of his
contribution to the field of Orthodox theology.
Over the years he was the professor and doctoral supervisor of
several hierarchs, priests or students of the Romanian Orthodox Church
who attended courses at the Saint Sergius Institute in Paris.
Through his writings, he also contributed to the theological
formation of many students of the theology faculties of the Romanian
Patriarchate.
We pray to our Lord Jesus Christ to receive Him in His eternal light,
revealed to us on Mount Tabor before His Passion, and to rest his soul
with His holy servants in the kingdom of the Most Holy Trinity, which
Father Boris has not ceased to seek and to preach throughout his earthly
life.
May his memory be eternal from generation to generation!With fatherly condolences and blessings for the bereaved,
† Daniel
Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church
Photography courtesy of Orthodoxie.com