Dr Soultana D. Lamprou

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Dr Soultana D. Lamprou is a professor at the Department of Social Theology and Christian Culture of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki with the subject “Church literature from the 9th to the 15th century”. She studied Theology at the Department of Social Theology and Christian Culture of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She completed her postgraduate studies at the same Department where she received her Master’s and Doctorate Diploma with Honors.

She is teaching at bachelor, master, and doctoral level, at the Department of Social Theology and Christian Culture of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, at the home university and abroad. She has supervised postgraduate theses and has participated in committees of postgraduate theses and doctoral dissertations supported in Greek Universities (EKPA, AUTH etc). She has many publications in Greek and English in collective volumes and magazines (on Humanities, Ethics, Cultural, Theology, Social issues) and participation in many local and international conferences as a speaker and as a member of the organizing committees in Greece and abroad. She also participated in. In addition, he participated in the editing and proofreading of various theological books, as well as in the editing of scientific conference proceedings. She was also a member of 40th electoral bodies at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, at the Ecclesiastical Academies, as well as a consultant and member of various committees at the Department of Social Theology and Christian Culture and at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

She was director of the Department of the Biblical Studies, Patristics and Christian Literature of her Departure (2019-2020), peer reviewer in the Religions Journal (2021), and evaluator of the research scholarships of the Hellenic Institute of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Studies in Venice (2021-2022). She is Deputy President of the Byzantine Research Center of AUTH and Director of the Theology Department of the same Center. Director of the Inter-Institutional Graduate Program “Religious and Pilgrimage Tourism” of the Department (2024).

For a decade, she has co-ordinated the bilateral Erasmus Programme agreement with the Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra Slovakia, as well as with the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

Studies:

She finished her circular studies in Goumenissa, Kilkis Prefecture. Following Panhellenic examinations, she was admitted in 1984 to the Department of Pastoral and Social Theology of the Theological School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (A.U.Th.), being, in fact, all the years of her studies a scholarship of the State Scholarships Foundation (S.S.F.) .

She completed her postgraduate studies in the same Department from where she received a Master’s Degree with honors in 1998, in the branch of Historical Theology. The topic of her thesis is “Resurrections of the Dead in the Lives of the Saints”.

She also participated as a representative of the Master’s Program of the Department of Pastoral and Social Theology in the years 1994 and 1996 in the seminars of the Orthodox Patriarchal Center in Chambésy, Switzerland. Specifically, she took part in the 10th Theological Conference-Postgraduate Seminar on “Nationalism and European Unity” and in the 17th Theological Conference-Postgraduate Seminar on “Modern Pastoral Ministry”, in which she also presented a presentation in the capacity of Committee President Findings.

In October 1998, she participated as a representative of the Department in a group of postgraduate students in the seminar of the Ecumenical Patriarchate on Environment and Poverty, which took place in Halki.

In 2002, she was awarded, with honors, a doctorate from the Department of Pastoral and Social Theology of the Faculty of Theology of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. The topic of her doctoral dissertation is Saint Paraskevi of the Epivates. Hagiological study, which was published for the first time in 2005 under the title Osia Paraskevi of the Epivates, History and Literature.

She also holds a German language degree from the Goethe Institut and a Russian language degree from the Institute from Balkan Studies.

Research Interests:

1. Ecclesiastical Literature from the 9th to the 15th century and critical editions of texts in the period from the 9^th to the 15^th c.
2. Patristic hermeneutic and adoption of Greek Philosophy in the Fathers of the Byzantine period.
3. Influences from the earlier patristic tradition on the ecclesiastical texts of the Byzantine period and their use in the texts of the later period.

Selected Publications:

Her writting work, rich and varied, consists in the majority of about forty studies concerning the Christian Secretariat of the period from the 9th to the 15th century, of which we mention only the titles of the monographs:

1. Μανουήλ Β΄ Παλαιολόγου, Προς τον εαυτού πνευματικόν, Εισαγωγή-Κριτική έκδοση, έκδ. Ναύς, Θεσσαλονίκη 2018.
2. Μανουήλ Β΄ Παλαιολόγου, Λόγος περί της εις το ημέτερον γένος οικονομίας και προνοίας του Κυρίου, Εισαγωγή-Κριτική έκδοση, έκδ. Ναύς, Θεσσαλονίκη 2018.
3. Μελετήματα Εκκλησιαστικής Γραμματείας (9^ος-15^ος αι.), έκδ. Ναύς, Θεσσαλονίκη 2018.
4. Ο αυτοκράτωρ Μανουήλ Β΄ Παλαιολόγος ως θεολόγος. Συμβολή στην έρευνα της Παλαιολόγειας Γραμματείας,έκδ. Ναύς, Θεσσαλονίκη 2012.
5. Η Οσία Παρασκευή η Επιβατηνή, Ιστορία και Γραμματεία, Φλώρινα 2005, β’ έκδοση Θεσσαλονίκη 2007 και γ΄έκδοση 2009 (σ. 320) (διδακτορική διατριβή).
6. Αναστάσεις νεκρών στους βίους των αγίων, Θεσσαλονίκη 1998 (σ. 141) (διπλωματική εργασία).