Professor Ioan Sauca of the Romanian Orthodox Church, and a key participant in the 2013 LOI consultation, has been appointed to a very senior staff position in the World Council of Churches (WCC).
Fr. Ioan, who is currently director of the WCC’s Ecumenical Institute in Bossey, is the new WCC associate general secretary for ecumenical formation and education. Fr. Ioan has served in the past as director of Ecumenical Church Relations, Press and Communication, and Religious Education in his home church in Romania and also taught missiology and ecumenism at the Faculty of Theology in Sibiu, Romania. He was responsible for Orthodox Studies and Relationships in Mission in the WCC from 1994, and in 1998 was appointed lecturer at the Ecumenical Institute. A graduate of the Ecumenical Institute himself, he holds a PhD in missiology from the University of Birmingham in England. His main field of scholarship is systematic theology, with particular emphasis on issues of mission and spirituality.
LOI congratulate Fr. Ioan on his appointment.