Father Ioan Sauca (centre of picture), a key member of the Lausanne-Orthodox Initiative Steering Committee has been awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa by the Transylvanian Babes Bolyai University in Cluj Napoca, Romania. Fr. Ioan serves as associate general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC) and director of the Ecumenical Institute at Bossey, Switzerland and was present at the LOI Consultation in Finland this past September.
Professor Dr Andrei Andreicut, the archbishop of Cluj Napoca, called Sauca a man of vocation, a charismatic teacher and an Orthodox priest marked by ecumenical openness.
Read the full WCC report here.