Dorotheos Dbar
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Dorotheos Dbar | |
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| Born | January 18, 1972 |
| Citizenship | Abkhazia |
| Alma mater | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki |
| Religion | Eastern Orthodoxy |
| Church | Abkhazian Church |
Archimandrite Dorotheos (Greek: Αρχιμανδρίτης Δωρόθεος Ντμπάρ, Abkhaz: архимандрит Дараҭ Дбар, born Dzhuma Dbar, January 18, 1972) is the archimandrite of Holy Metropolis of Goumenissa, Aksiupol and Policastro under the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople and a chairman of the Holy Metropolis of Abkhazia (HMA).[1][2]
He is an author of two scientific monographs, several books, more than 150 publicistic articles and the chief editor of the religious and educational magazine “Alasharbaga” and the head of the cultural and educational center “Aduney”. Archimandrite Dorotheos also translated Liturgical texts from Ancient Greek, Modern Greek, the Church Slavonic language into Abkhazian and Russian.
Dear was born Dzhuma Dbar in 1972 in the village of Mgudzirkhua, Gudauta District, Abkhazia, Georgia.
Education
In 1991 Dbar entered the Abkhazian State University at the faculty of art as a painter-decorator.
In 1993 he entered the Moscow Theological Academy and Seminary and in 2001 graduated from the academy after defending his PhD Thesis, "History of Christianity in Abkhazia in the first millennium".
He was admitted to the doctoral program of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki on October 29, 2009. On May 4, 2014, Dbar successfully defended his doctoral thesis, "The Place of death and burial of St. John Chrysostom" («Ο τόπος θανάτου και ενταφιασμού του αγίου Ιωάννου του Χρυσοστόμου»).[3]
