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May 1990 – Priest and professor SEBASTIAN CHILEA passed away in
Bucharest. He studies at the Theological Seminary of “Saint Nicholas” of
Râmnicu Vâlcea (1921 – 1929) and at the Faculty of Theology of
Bucharest (1929 – 1933, graduated in 1934), with a doctor’s degree in
1949. He was parish priest at Baia de Aramă, county of Mehedinți (1931 –
1941); preacher priest at the “Saint Dumitru” Cathedral of Craiova
(since 1941); professor at the Theological Seminary of Craiova (1951 –
1952 and 1955 – 1959), then at the one in Bucharest (1965 – 1978).
Political refugee for several years (1959 – 1964).
Works: Ethics
and Aesthetics (1948, doctorate thesis); Present Homiletic
Considerations (O. 1967); On Origen’s Hypothesis (St, 1978), Saints at
the sinners’ judgement (ST, 1979). He published over one hundred sermons
in the magazines “Glasul Bisericii”, “Mitropolia Olteniei”, etc.
