Roger AKHRASS

Roger AKHRASS

PhD

  • Institut chrétiens d'Orient

    Lecturer

  • Université Saint-Esprit, Kaslik - Lebanon

    Lecturer

Lebanon

Arab Fathers Asceticism and Spiritual Life Christology Interreligious Dialogue in the Near East Manuscript Cataloguing Manuscript Illumination New Testament Orthodox-Catholic Dialogue Sacramental Theology Syriac Fathers Syriac Hymnography Syriac Language and Literature Syriac Liturgy Syriac and Assyrian Tradition

Biography

Severus Roger Akhrass (b. 1981, Sarba – Lebanon) is a Syriac Orthodox archbishop and scholar specializing in Patristics and Syriac studies. He earned his Ph.D. in Patristics from the Catholic University of Paris (2013, summa cum laude), with a critical edition of Michael the Great’s work on the confession of sins. He has taught theology at St. Aphrem Theological Seminary (Syria) and the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (Lebanon), and since 2014 serves as Director of the Department of Syriac Studies at the Syriac Orthodox Patriarchate. His research focuses on Church Fathers, Syriac Liturgy, ecclesiology and ecumenism.

Curriculum

  • Sankt Ignatius Theological Academy - Stockholm
  • Saint Aphrem Theological Seminary, M'arrat Saydnaya - Syria