19
April 1825 – Archimandrite SCRIBAN THEOCTIST (baptised Hristofor) was
born in Adâncata village, county of Suceava. Studies at “Vasilian”
Gymnasium and Mihailean Academy of Iași, theological studies at Socola
Seminary (graduated in 1874), then at the Spiritual Academy of Kiev
(1847 – 1851). Professor at Socola Seminary (1851 – 1857), tonsured into
monasticism and ordained hieromonk (1856), awarded the title of
archimandrite (1857), president of the new Eparchial Consistory of
Ismail (1857 – 1863); professor at the “Central” Seminary of Bucharest
(1864 – 1872), retired, then, for a short while, Director of Socola
Seminary (1884 – 1885).
Works: He published didactic manuals,
adapted or translated. He translated from Russian: Homiletics by Iacob
Amfiteatrov (2 volumes, 1856 – 1858) and other works; he published the
book “Church sermons on Sundays, feasts and funerals” (1867); from 1870 –
1872 he edited the “Church Voice” magazine in Bucharest, in which he
published many sermons, most of them translated from St. Gregory the
Theologian (some of them published in a brochure). He passed away on 11
January 1890, in Iasi.
