Bishop Mitrofan of Buzău

Studia Theologica No. II (IX) / 2019 Hieromonk Antim Ivireanul – printer at the Metropolis of Ungrovlahia and abbot of the Monastery of Saint Sava in Bucharest (1691–1694) Archimandrite, PhD candidate Mihail Stanciu

The article reconstructs the circumstances surrounding the arrival of the hieromonk Antim Ivireanul in Bucharest, based on key documents: Hrisant Notara’s letter to Ianache Văcărescu (1709), Metropolitan Antim’s first letter of defence to Constantin Brâncoveanu (1712) and the preface to the 1706 Evhologhion written by Mihail Iștvanovici. It is argued that Antim was brought from Iași to Bucharest in 1689 by Hrisant Notara, at the behest of Patriarch Dosithei, to learn the art of printing under Bishop Mitrofan, and that he also served as abbot of the Monastery of Saint Sava.

Studia Theologica No. I (V) / 2018 The Life and Work of the Blessed Damaschin Dascălul, Bishop of Râmnic († 5 December 1725) Ioana Iancovescu

Damaschin Dascălul, Bishop of Buzău (1702) and subsequently of Râmnic (1708), was one of the great scholars of the Brâncoveanu era, dedicated to the translation and printing of liturgical books in Romanian. This article examines his education, his printing activities in Buzău and Râmnic, and the canonical and cultural resistance he offered to the Austrian occupation of Oltenia (1716–1739), when his Romanian publications, such as the Ceaslovul (1724) and the Învățătura pentru șapte Taine (1724), circulated clandestinely in Transylvania to support the Orthodox Christians there.

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