Bishop Visarion of Tulcea celebrates his name daytranslated

Bishop Visarion of Tulcea celebrates his name day on the feast of St. Visarion Sarai, one of the Transylvanian Confessor Saints.

His Eminence was born on October 19, 1959 in Tălmaciu, Sibiu county.

He studied Theology at Bachelor's and Doctorate level at the Faculty of Orthodox Theology in Sibiu during 1982-1989.

The bachelor's thesis, which he wrote under the guidance of Rev. Prof. Dr. Mircea Păcurariu, was entitled "The Romanian Orthodox Church seen by foreign travelers (15th - 19th centuries)", and the doctoral thesis was in the field of Dogmatic and Symbolic Theology.

Between 1991 and 1994 he worked as a university assistant at the Classical Languages ​​department of the "Andrei Șaguna" Faculty of Orthodox Theology of the "Lucian Blaga" University in Sibiu, then, between 1994 and 1997, he attended specialization courses at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Athens, Greece.

The hierarch wrote several books and numerous specialized articles, and in 2005 he defended, also at the Faculty of Theology "Andrei Șaguna" in Sibiu, the doctoral thesis "The Mariological Teaching of Saint Nicholas Cabasila".

Pruning in monasticism and the priesthood He was ordained a monk on May 5, 1989, at…