14 August 1849 \u2013 Bishop GHERASIM TIMU\u0218 was born in Ia\u0219i – photo-. Studies at “Veniamin\u201d Seminary at Socola (1867 \u2013 1874), with difference of secondary school and school leaving examination, then at the Faculties of Philology of Bucharest and Ia\u0219i; married deacon (1871); widower, he becomes a monk at Cernica, in 1875, having been appointed archdeacon and preacher at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Bucharest (1875 \u2013 1880), then sent to study at the Faculty of Theology of Cern\u0103u\u021bi (1880 \u2013 1884), where he was awarded the doctor\u2019s degree. Professor of Hebrew language and Bible study of the Old Testament of Bucharest (1884 \u2013 1893), dean of the Faculty (1892 \u2013 1893); titular hierarch of the name “Pite\u0219teanul\u201d (December 1886); Bishop locum tenens of Arge\u0219 (from 1 June 1893), then eparchial Bishop (14 March 1894, enthroned on 27 March 1894), where he served till his death. He was interested in the good development of the church life, in the re-establishment of Turnu and St\u00e2ni\u0219oara Monasteries. He passed away on 22 December 1911, in Bucharest.<\/p>\n
Works: Notes and Meditations on the Psalms (3 volumes, 1896 with over 2100 pages); Hagiographic Dictionary of concise lives of the saints (1898, 874 pages). He translated: Introduction into the Orthodox Theology, by Macarie Bulgacov of Moscow (1885, 640 pages, after the French edition, Paris 1857), Orthodox Dogmatic Theology by Macarie of Moscow (2 volumes, 1886-1887, 1637 pages, after the French edition, Paris 1859 \u2013 1860); World Church History by Eusebiu Popovici (2 volumes, 1900-1901, in collaboration with Atanasie Mironescu).<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
14 August 1849 \u2013 Bishop GHERASIM TIMU\u0218 was born in Ia\u0219i – photo-. Studies at “Veniamin\u201d Seminary at Socola (1867 \u2013 1874), with difference of secondary school and school leaving examination, then at the Faculties of Philology of Bucharest and Ia\u0219i; married deacon (1871); widower, he becomes a monk at Cernica, in 1875, having been…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anniversaries-and-commemorations"],"yoast_head":"\n