Background
Meyendorff, Ivan Feofilovich, Baron was born on February 2, 1926 in Neuilly-sur-Seine. Son of a Russian emigre.
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Meyendorff, Ivan Feofilovich, Baron was born on February 2, 1926 in Neuilly-sur-Seine. Son of a Russian emigre.
Graduated from the Sorbonne and St. Sergius Theological Institute, Paris, in 1949.
Lecturer on patristic studies at the Theological Institute, 1950-1959. Priest, 1958. Professor of Patrology at St. Vladimir Seminary, New York, since 1959. Later became dean of the Seminary.
Widely known as a scholar and representative of Orthodox theology in the West.