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'''Eulogios Kourilas Lauriotis'''<ref name=Peyfuss>{{cite journal|last=Peyfuss |first= Max Demeter |title=Die Akademia von Moschopolis und ihre Nachwirkungen im Geistesleben Sudeuropas |journal=Wissenschaftspolitik im Mittel- und Osteuropa: Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaften, Akademien und Hochschulen im 18. und beginnenden 19. Jahrhundert |publisher= Hobbing|language=German|year=1976|pages= 114–128 [119] |ref=|isbn=978-3-921515-00-6|url=http://books.google.gr/books?id=ePc2AAAAIAAJ&q=%22Eulogios+Kourilas+Lauriotes%22&dq=%22Eulogios+Kourilas+Lauriotes%22&hl=el&ei=M4oETci8M8X5sgbp5uDrCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAg|quote=griechische Historiker und Mönch der Laura am Athos, Eulogios Kourilas Lauriotes...}}</ref> or '''Evlogji Kurila'''<ref>His family name is cited either in its Greek form "Kourilas" or "Kurilas" or in its Albanian Form "Kurila". His first name can be found spelled "Eulogios" or "Evlogios" in Greek, "Evlogji" in Albanian, or sometimes "Eulogio" in English.</ref> (1880–1961) was a bishop of the [[Orthodox Autocephalous Church of Albania]]. He was the [[Eastern Orthodoxy|Orthodox]] metropolitan bishop of [[Korçë]] (Korytsa) in [[Albania]] between 1937 and 1939, and a professor of philosophy and author on religious matters. He latter became one of the leaders of the [[Northern Epirus]] movement, propagading that Greece should annex southern Albania.<ref name=Bernhard/>
'''Eulogios Kourilas Lauriotis'''<ref>{{cite journal|last=Peyfuss |first= Max Demeter |title=Die Akademia von Moschopolis und ihre Nachwirkungen im Geistesleben Sudeuropas |journal=Wissenschaftspolitik im Mittel- und Osteuropa: Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaften, Akademien und Hochschulen im 18. und beginnenden 19. Jahrhundert |publisher= Hobbing|language=German|year=1976|pages= 114–128 [119] |ref=|isbn=978-3-921515-00-6|url=http://books.google.gr/books?id=ePc2AAAAIAAJ&q=%22Eulogios+Kourilas+Lauriotes%22&dq=%22Eulogios+Kourilas+Lauriotes%22&hl=el&ei=M4oETci8M8X5sgbp5uDrCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAg|quote=griechische Historiker und Mönch der Laura am Athos, Eulogios Kourilas Lauriotes...}}</ref> or '''Evlogji Kurila'''<ref>His family name is cited either in its Greek form "Kourilas" or "Kurilas" or in its Albanian Form "Kurila". His first name can be found spelled "Eulogios" or "Evlogios" in Greek, "Evlogji" in Albanian, or sometimes "Eulogio" in English.</ref> (1880–1961) was a bishop of the [[Orthodox Autocephalous Church of Albania]]. He was the [[Eastern Orthodoxy|Orthodox]] metropolitan bishop of [[Korçë]] (Korytsa) in [[Albania]] between 1937 and 1939, and a professor of philosophy and author on religious matters.


==Life==
==Life==
He was born in the village of [[Ziçisht]] (Zititsa in Greek)<ref name="mylopotamos">[http://www.mylopotamos.com/theBookmylo.htm Εκδόσεις: Οι Αμπελώνες του Άθω.] Μυλοπόταμος (Greek)</ref><ref name=Ioannina/><ref>Encyclopedia "Papyrus-Larousse", Athens 1964, vol. 6, article "Eylogios Kourilas", in Greek language.</ref> (then [[Ottoman Empire]], today in [[Albania]]) in 1880.<ref name="Ramet">{{cite book|last=Ramet|first=Sabrina|title=Nihil obstat: religion, politics, and social change in East-Central Europe and Russia|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=ZvMi6paTOlcC&pg=PA208&dq=Eulogio+Kurila&hl=en&cd=1%23v=onepage&q=Eulogio_Kurila&f=false#v=onepage&q=Eulogio%20Kurila&f=false|year=1998|publisher=Duke University Press|isbn=0-8223-2070-3|page=208}}</ref> He was either of [[Greeks|Greek]]<ref name=Peyfuss/><ref>{{cite book |last=Fahlbusch, Erwin Bromiley, Geoffrey William |first= |title=The encyclopedia of Christianity |publisher="Hestia" Publishers & Booksellers|publisher=Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |language=1999|year=|page= 35 |ref=|isbn=9788889345047|url=http://books.google.com/books?hl=el&id=z47zgZ75dqgC&q=evlogios#v=snippet&q=evlogios&f=false |quote= "Archbisop Panteleimon of Gjirokastër and Bishop Evlogios of Korçë (both Greeks born in Albania) fled the country, and the last links with the Patriarchate of Constantinople was broken.}}</ref> or [[Albanians|Albanian]] origin.<ref name="CC">{{citation|publisher=Holy See| oclc=1774680| location=Rome| title=Albania, un musaico di religioni| chapter=Gli ortodossi nel Impero ottomano| journal=La Civiltà cattolica, Issues 3727-3732| url=http://books.google.com/books?id=rS0TAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA343| page=343|issue=3730|year=2005| volume=IV| issn=0009-8167| id=UOM:39015063379849| quote=Constantinopoli gli preferi Evlogi Kurila, un altro sacerdote di origine Albanese}}</ref> During his youth he was attracted by [[asceticism|ascetic]] and [[monasticism|monastic]] ideals and joined the monastic community of [[Mount Athos]]. He graduated from the local [[Athonite Academy|Athonite School]] (1901) and the [[Phanar Greek Orthodox College]] in [[Istambul]].<ref name=Ioannina/> He continued his studies in the Philosophy department of the [[University of Athens]], where he acquired his [[Ph.D.]] in [[Humanities]].<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?lr=&cd=1&hl=el&as_brr=0&id=KeoSAAAAIAAJ&dq= ''Europa World of learning online'']. Allen & Unwin, 1950, p. 384</ref> He continued studies in Germany. Kourilas also participated in the [[Greek Struggle for Macedonia]] and during the [[Balkan Wars]] (1912–1913) he was in charge of 100 armed men, among them many priests, that fought for [[Greece]] in the area of [[Chalkidiki]].<ref name=Ioannina/>
He was of [[Albanians|Albanian]] origin<ref name="CC">{{citation|publisher=Holy See| oclc=1774680| location=Rome| title=Albania, un musaico di religioni| chapter=Gli ortodossi nel Impero ottomano| journal=La Civiltà cattolica, Issues 3727-3732| url=http://books.google.com/books?id=rS0TAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA343| page=343|issue=3730|year=2005| volume=IV| issn=0009-8167| id=UOM:39015063379849| quote=Constantinopoli gli preferi Evlogi Kurila, un altro sacerdote di origine Albanese}}</ref> and was born in the village of [[Ziçisht]] (Zititsa in Greek)<ref name="mylopotamos">[http://www.mylopotamos.com/theBookmylo.htm Εκδόσεις: Οι Αμπελώνες του Άθω.] Μυλοπόταμος (Greek)</ref><ref name=Ioannina/><ref>Encyclopedia "Papyrus-Larousse", Athens 1964, vol. 6, article "Eylogios Kourilas", in Greek language.</ref> (then [[Ottoman Empire]], today in [[Albania]]) in 1880.<ref name="Ramet">{{cite book|last=Ramet|first=Sabrina|title=Nihil obstat: religion, politics, and social change in East-Central Europe and Russia|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=ZvMi6paTOlcC&pg=PA208&dq=Eulogio+Kurila&hl=en&cd=1%23v=onepage&q=Eulogio_Kurila&f=false#v=onepage&q=Eulogio%20Kurila&f=false|year=1998|publisher=Duke University Press|isbn=0-8223-2070-3|page=208}}</ref> During his youth he was attracted by [[asceticism|ascetic]] and [[monasticism|monastic]] ideals and joined the monastic community of [[Mount Athos]]. He graduated from the local [[Athonite Academy|Athonite School]] (1901) and the [[Phanar Greek Orthodox College]] in [[Istambul]].<ref name=Ioannina/> He continued his studies in the Philosophy department of the [[University of Athens]], where he acquired his [[Ph.D.]] in [[Humanities]].<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?lr=&cd=1&hl=el&as_brr=0&id=KeoSAAAAIAAJ&dq= ''Europa World of learning online'']. Allen & Unwin, 1950, p. 384</ref> He continued studies in Germany. Kourilas also participated in the [[Greek Struggle for Macedonia]] and during the [[Balkan Wars]] (1912–1913) he was in charge of 100 armed men, among them many priests, that fought for [[Greece]] in the area of [[Chalkidiki]].<ref name=Ioannina/>


After an agreement with the Albanian authorities, in 1937, the [[Ecumenical Patriarchate]] chose a number of highly educated religious personalities for key positions in the recently declared as [[Autocephaly|autocephalous]] [[Orthodox Autocephalous Church of Albania|Orthodox Church of Albania]]. Among them where [[Panteleimon Kotokos]] as [[metropolitan bishop|metropolitan]] of Gjirokastër and Eulogios Kourilas as metropolitan of Korçë.<ref>{{cite book |last=Kondis |first= Basil |title=The Greeks of Northern Epirus and Greek-Albanian relations: historical review from the Greek edition : v. 3, 1922-1929-v. 4, 1930-1940 |language=|year=1990|page= 41|ref=|isbn=|url=http://books.google.com/books?lr=&cd=13&hl=el&id=YpJpAAAAMAAJ&dq=}}</ref> When the communist regime of [[Enver Hoxha]] came to power in Albania in 1945, he was declared an "[[enemy of the state]]" and was deprived from the Albanian citizenship.<ref name="encyc">{{cite book |last=Fahlbusch, Erwin Bromiley, Geoffrey William |first= |title=The encyclopedia of Christianity |publisher="Hestia" Publishers & Booksellers ; Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |year=|page= 35 |ref=|isbn=978-88-89345-04-7|url=http://books.google.com/books?hl=el&id=z47zgZ75dqgC&q=evlogios#v=snippet&q=evlogios&f=false |quote= "Archbisop Panteleimon of Gjirokastër and Bishop Evlogios of Korçë (both Greeks born in Albania) fled the country, and the last links with the Patriarchate of Constantinople was broken.}}</ref> By then he was already living in Greece where, parallel to his academic work, together with Panteleimon Kotokos became the heads of the ''Northern Epirus Central Committee'' propagating that parts of southern Albania, known among Greeks as [[Northern Epirus]] should be awarded to Greece.<ref name=Bernhard>{{cite journal|journal= Südosteuropa - Zeitschrift für Gegenwartsforschung |last=Tönes |first=Bernhard |title=Belastungsprobe für die albanisch-griechischen Beziehungen |pages=440–456 [442] |publisher=Südost-Institut München. Abteilung Gegenwartsforschung |language=German|year=1983|ref=|isbn=|url=
After an agreement with the Albanian authorities, in 1937, the [[Ecumenical Patriarchate]] chose a number of highly educated religious personalities for key positions in the recently declared as [[Autocephaly|autocephalous]] [[Orthodox Autocephalous Church of Albania|Orthodox Church of Albania]]. Among them where [[Panteleimon Kotokos]] as [[metropolitan bishop|metropolitan]] of Gjirokastër and Eulogios Kourilas as metropolitan of Korçë.<ref>{{cite book |last=Kondis |first= Basil |title=The Greeks of Northern Epirus and Greek-Albanian relations: historical review from the Greek edition : v. 3, 1922-1929-v. 4, 1930-1940 |language=|year=1990|page= 41|ref=|isbn=|url=http://books.google.com/books?lr=&cd=13&hl=el&id=YpJpAAAAMAAJ&dq=}}</ref> When the communist regime of [[Enver Hoxha]] came to power in Albania in 1945, he was declared an "[[enemy of the state]]" and was deprived from the Albanian citizenship.<ref name="encyc">{{cite book |last=Fahlbusch, Erwin Bromiley, Geoffrey William |first= |title=The encyclopedia of Christianity |publisher="Hestia" Publishers & Booksellers ; Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |year=|page= 35 |ref=|isbn=978-88-89345-04-7|url=http://books.google.com/books?hl=el&id=z47zgZ75dqgC&q=evlogios#v=snippet&q=evlogios&f=false |quote= "Archbisop Panteleimon of Gjirokastër and Bishop Evlogios of Korçë (both Greeks born in Albania) fled the country, and the last links with the Patriarchate of Constantinople was broken.}}</ref> By then he was already living in Greece where, parallel to his academic work, together with Panteleimon Kotokos became the heads of the ''Northern Epirus Central Committee'' propagating that parts of southern Albania, known among Greeks as [[Northern Epirus]] should be awarded to Greece.<ref>{{cite journal|journal= Südosteuropa - Zeitschrift für Gegenwartsforschung |last=Tönes |first=Bernhard |title=Belastungsprobe für die albanisch-griechischen Beziehungen |pages=440–456 [442] |publisher=Südost-Institut München. Abteilung Gegenwartsforschung |language=German|year=1983|ref=|isbn=|url=
http://books.google.com/books?ei=Lo7-TJCCJMKz8QOcqOWMCw&ct=result&hl=el&id=yJe2AAAAIAAJ&dq=Evlogios%2Bzwecks&q=%22Er+und+sein+ebenfalls+geflohener+Amtskollege+Evlogios%22#search_anchor |quote=}}</ref>
http://books.google.com/books?ei=Lo7-TJCCJMKz8QOcqOWMCw&ct=result&hl=el&id=yJe2AAAAIAAJ&dq=Evlogios%2Bzwecks&q=%22Er+und+sein+ebenfalls+geflohener+Amtskollege+Evlogios%22#search_anchor |quote=}}</ref>
He became professor at School of Philosophy of the [[Aristotle University of Thessaloniki]] (1935–1937) and of the [[University of Athens]] (1942–1949).<ref>Weitzmann Kurt. [http://books.google.com/books?lr=&cd=10&hl=el&as_brr=0&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&id=zu6fAAAAMAAJ&dq=Eulogios%2BaLBANIA&q=Kurillas#search_anchor Sailing with Byzantium from Europe to America: the memoirs of an art historian]. Editio Maris. 1994. ISBN 978-3-925801-17-4, p. 134.</ref>
He became professor at School of Philosophy of the [[Aristotle University of Thessaloniki]] (1935–1937) and of the [[University of Athens]] (1942–1949).<ref>Weitzmann Kurt. [http://books.google.com/books?lr=&cd=10&hl=el&as_brr=0&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&id=zu6fAAAAMAAJ&dq=Eulogios%2BaLBANIA&q=Kurillas#search_anchor Sailing with Byzantium from Europe to America: the memoirs of an art historian]. Editio Maris. 1994. ISBN 978-3-925801-17-4, p. 134.</ref>

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Metropolitan Eulogios of Korçë
Evllogji Kurila, Eulogios Kourilas
Metropolitan of Korca
ChurchChurch of Constantinople, Orthodox Autocephalous Church of Albania
In office1937-1939
Personal details
Born1880
Ziçisht (Korçë), Ottoman Empire, now in modern Albania
Died1961 (aged 81)
Athens, Greece

Eulogios Kourilas Lauriotis[1] or Evlogji Kurila[2] (1880–1961) was a bishop of the Orthodox Autocephalous Church of Albania. He was the Orthodox metropolitan bishop of Korçë (Korytsa) in Albania between 1937 and 1939, and a professor of philosophy and author on religious matters.

Life

He was of Albanian origin[3] and was born in the village of Ziçisht (Zititsa in Greek)[4][5][6] (then Ottoman Empire, today in Albania) in 1880.[7] During his youth he was attracted by ascetic and monastic ideals and joined the monastic community of Mount Athos. He graduated from the local Athonite School (1901) and the Phanar Greek Orthodox College in Istambul.[5] He continued his studies in the Philosophy department of the University of Athens, where he acquired his Ph.D. in Humanities.[8] He continued studies in Germany. Kourilas also participated in the Greek Struggle for Macedonia and during the Balkan Wars (1912–1913) he was in charge of 100 armed men, among them many priests, that fought for Greece in the area of Chalkidiki.[5]

After an agreement with the Albanian authorities, in 1937, the Ecumenical Patriarchate chose a number of highly educated religious personalities for key positions in the recently declared as autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania. Among them where Panteleimon Kotokos as metropolitan of Gjirokastër and Eulogios Kourilas as metropolitan of Korçë.[9] When the communist regime of Enver Hoxha came to power in Albania in 1945, he was declared an "enemy of the state" and was deprived from the Albanian citizenship.[10] By then he was already living in Greece where, parallel to his academic work, together with Panteleimon Kotokos became the heads of the Northern Epirus Central Committee propagating that parts of southern Albania, known among Greeks as Northern Epirus should be awarded to Greece.[11] He became professor at School of Philosophy of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1935–1937) and of the University of Athens (1942–1949).[12]

He donated a significant part (10,000 volumes) of his library to the University of Ioannina.[5]

He died in 1961, Stratonike, Chalkidiki.

Works

Eulogios Kourilas wrote several historical, philosophical and theological books in Greek. His main works are (titles translated from Greek):

  • History of Ascetism (1929)
  • Catalogue of Kausokalyvia codices (1930)
  • Albanian studies (1933)
  • Gregorios Argyrokastritis (1935)
  • Moschopolis and its New Academy (1935)
  • Heraclea Sacra (1942) (title in Latin)
  • Hellenism and Christianism (1944)
  • Patriarchic History (1951).

References

  1. ^ Peyfuss, Max Demeter (1976). "Die Akademia von Moschopolis und ihre Nachwirkungen im Geistesleben Sudeuropas". Wissenschaftspolitik im Mittel- und Osteuropa: Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaften, Akademien und Hochschulen im 18. und beginnenden 19. Jahrhundert (in German). Hobbing: 114–128 [119]. ISBN 978-3-921515-00-6. griechische Historiker und Mönch der Laura am Athos, Eulogios Kourilas Lauriotes...
  2. ^ His family name is cited either in its Greek form "Kourilas" or "Kurilas" or in its Albanian Form "Kurila". His first name can be found spelled "Eulogios" or "Evlogios" in Greek, "Evlogji" in Albanian, or sometimes "Eulogio" in English.
  3. ^ "Albania, un musaico di religioni", La Civiltà cattolica, Issues 3727-3732, IV (3730), Rome: Holy See: 343, 2005, ISSN 0009-8167, OCLC 1774680, UOM:39015063379849, Constantinopoli gli preferi Evlogi Kurila, un altro sacerdote di origine Albanese {{citation}}: |chapter= ignored (help)
  4. ^ Εκδόσεις: Οι Αμπελώνες του Άθω. Μυλοπόταμος (Greek)
  5. ^ a b c d Μαίρη Ζαγκλή-Μπόζιου. Γενικός Κατάλογος Αρχείου. Πανεπιστήμιο Ιωαννίνων. Τμήμα Ιστορία και Αρχαιολογίας. p. 13 (Greek)
  6. ^ Encyclopedia "Papyrus-Larousse", Athens 1964, vol. 6, article "Eylogios Kourilas", in Greek language.
  7. ^ Ramet, Sabrina (1998). Nihil obstat: religion, politics, and social change in East-Central Europe and Russia. Duke University Press. p. 208. ISBN 0-8223-2070-3.
  8. ^ Europa World of learning online. Allen & Unwin, 1950, p. 384
  9. ^ Kondis, Basil (1990). The Greeks of Northern Epirus and Greek-Albanian relations: historical review from the Greek edition : v. 3, 1922-1929-v. 4, 1930-1940. p. 41.
  10. ^ Fahlbusch, Erwin Bromiley, Geoffrey William. The encyclopedia of Christianity. "Hestia" Publishers & Booksellers ; Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. p. 35. ISBN 978-88-89345-04-7. "Archbisop Panteleimon of Gjirokastër and Bishop Evlogios of Korçë (both Greeks born in Albania) fled the country, and the last links with the Patriarchate of Constantinople was broken.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  11. ^ Tönes, Bernhard (1983). "Belastungsprobe für die albanisch-griechischen Beziehungen". Südosteuropa - Zeitschrift für Gegenwartsforschung (in German). Südost-Institut München. Abteilung Gegenwartsforschung: 440–456 [442].
  12. ^ Weitzmann Kurt. Sailing with Byzantium from Europe to America: the memoirs of an art historian. Editio Maris. 1994. ISBN 978-3-925801-17-4, p. 134.

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