STANILOAE, DUMITRU

STANILOAE, DUMITRU, priest, Romanian theologian, educator (1903–1993). Appointed in the late 1930s to the faculty of theology at Bucharest and subsequently the most important Romanian theologian, Staniloae was one of the leaders, if not the leader, of the renaissance of patristic (q.v.) and monastic studies, which has done much to enliven and renew the Romanian Church. His vast work of translation and commentary on the Philokalia, an expanded version of the series first published by Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain (qq.v.), is still in the process of editing and at present runs to more than a dozen volumes.