In May 2016 at the Faculty of Theology, “Ovidius” University, Constant ¸a,
invited as honorary guest University Professor Sheik Abdullah Bin
Abdulmohsen Al-Turki, PhD, General Secretary of World Muslim League
and leading personality of the Islamic world to give a talk on Man in the
Conception of the Muslim Religion. At the occassion the Rector of “Ovidius”
University, Professor Sorin Rugina ˘ and Professor Sheik Abdullah Bin
Abdulmohsen Al-Turki, PhD, signed the intention letter for a colaboration
agreement between “Ovidius” University and the World Muslim League for
intercultural and inter-religious dialogue, with the support of Archbishop Teodosie
and Mufti Iusuf Murat. (Predescu 2016).
Priest Ieronim Iacob, became the new Monsenior of the Basilique Saint Anton
after the retirement of the former monsenior S ¸ tefan Ghent ¸a. (Candet 2011) He was
born in Moldova near Mirces ¸ti, the domain which Vasile Alecsandri immortalized
in his poems in a Catholic village attested since the fourteenth century and in a
Catholic family. He was certain of his Catholic vocation and followed this educational path, at first in Romania and then in Italy where he studied the archives and
worked as a capelin in a hospital in Siena. He became a priest in the year that
preceded the Revolution, at first as capelin priest, then bishop vicary, aid of the
Bishop in Archdiocese in Bucharest and Ias ¸i. (Candet 2011).
During 1994–1996, we worked at Na ˘vodari, at the foundation raised by Father
Solomon completed while I were there. Then, he went at Bucharest at Laymen
Theological Institute (1996–2000). Since 1997 and until 2000 I was priest and first
Catholic chapellin and he worked in the Ministry of National Defence. With
Romania’s accession to NATO, he worked there, too. Since the fall of 2000, he
received a grand from the Pontifical Georgian University, Church History specialization and he studied the archives of Fide propaganda, studying also a part of the
Romanian history (1847–1914). In august 2015 he was nominated Monsenior of
Saint Anton Basilique with about 500 families in his care. (Candet 2011).
3.2.1.4 Anniversary Snapshot: Biologist ALEXANDRU-S ¸ ERBAN
BOLOGA
Last but not least, the very reason for our incursion in
the Dobrujan spirituality and culture, ALEXANDRUS ¸ ERBAN BOLOGA is a biologist and Full Member of
the Academy of Romanian Scientists, the Section of
Biology Sciences. Born on the 8th of September at
Bras ¸ov and a graduate of the Biology Faculty, Specialization Botanics of Babes ¸-Bolyai University in ClujNapoca in 1970, Professor Alexandru Bologa owns a
PhD in Marine Biology at C.I. Parhon University in
Bucharest, in 1980, with the thesis entitled Photosynthetic Productivity of Marine Macrophyte Benthic
Algae. (AOS ¸R 2016).
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invited as honorary guest University Professor Sheik Abdullah Bin
Abdulmohsen Al-Turki, PhD, General Secretary of World Muslim League
and leading personality of the Islamic world to give a talk on Man in the
Conception of the Muslim Religion. At the occassion the Rector of “Ovidius”
University, Professor Sorin Rugina ˘ and Professor Sheik Abdullah Bin
Abdulmohsen Al-Turki, PhD, signed the intention letter for a colaboration
agreement between “Ovidius” University and the World Muslim League for
intercultural and inter-religious dialogue, with the support of Archbishop Teodosie
and Mufti Iusuf Murat. (Predescu 2016).
Priest Ieronim Iacob, became the new Monsenior of the Basilique Saint Anton
after the retirement of the former monsenior S ¸ tefan Ghent ¸a. (Candet 2011) He was
born in Moldova near Mirces ¸ti, the domain which Vasile Alecsandri immortalized
in his poems in a Catholic village attested since the fourteenth century and in a
Catholic family. He was certain of his Catholic vocation and followed this educational path, at first in Romania and then in Italy where he studied the archives and
worked as a capelin in a hospital in Siena. He became a priest in the year that
preceded the Revolution, at first as capelin priest, then bishop vicary, aid of the
Bishop in Archdiocese in Bucharest and Ias ¸i. (Candet 2011).
During 1994–1996, we worked at Na ˘vodari, at the foundation raised by Father
Solomon completed while I were there. Then, he went at Bucharest at Laymen
Theological Institute (1996–2000). Since 1997 and until 2000 I was priest and first
Catholic chapellin and he worked in the Ministry of National Defence. With
Romania’s accession to NATO, he worked there, too. Since the fall of 2000, he
received a grand from the Pontifical Georgian University, Church History specialization and he studied the archives of Fide propaganda, studying also a part of the
Romanian history (1847–1914). In august 2015 he was nominated Monsenior of
Saint Anton Basilique with about 500 families in his care. (Candet 2011).
3.2.1.4 Anniversary Snapshot: Biologist ALEXANDRU-S ¸ ERBAN
BOLOGA
Last but not least, the very reason for our incursion in
the Dobrujan spirituality and culture, ALEXANDRUS ¸ ERBAN BOLOGA is a biologist and Full Member of
the Academy of Romanian Scientists, the Section of
Biology Sciences. Born on the 8th of September at
Bras ¸ov and a graduate of the Biology Faculty, Specialization Botanics of Babes ¸-Bolyai University in ClujNapoca in 1970, Professor Alexandru Bologa owns a
PhD in Marine Biology at C.I. Parhon University in
Bucharest, in 1980, with the thesis entitled Photosynthetic Productivity of Marine Macrophyte Benthic
Algae. (AOS ¸R 2016).
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