CURRICULUM VITAE

Personal data:

Name and Surname: Zoran Djurovic.

Date and Place of Birth: November 12, 1968. Bar, Montenegro.

Profession: Priest, Artist and Scholar.

Conjugal Status: Married, Three children.

Е-mail: office@zorandjurovic.com and zoran5@interfree.it

Phone: (+39) 06-98-80283.

Education:

- High School of Art and Design (Paintings and Disciplines of Design: Industrial, Graphics, Fashion, Architecture) in Podgorica, Montenegro.

- Degree in Theology at the Faculty of Orthodox Theology of the University of Belgrade.  

- Studies of the History of Philosophy (III cycle of specialization; mentor Slobodan Zunjic) at The Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, but without taking doctorate because of the parish works.  

- Since 2002 until today: study (III cycle of specialization) at Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum of the Pontifical  University Lateranense, Rome.

- License in Theology and Patristic Sciences, January 2007, at Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum. Title of thesis: La condizione originaria dell'uomo nella teologia di Agostino. Un riesame dei suoi commenti alla Genesi e dei suoi scritti della polemica pelagiana sulla mortalità di Adamo. Vocabolario e questioni. Similar thema entitled "L'arche e il telos dell'uomo nella teologia di s. Agostino (386-417)," is subject of a doctorate in theology at the same Institute under the moderation of the following professors: Vittorino Grossi, OSA (first mentor), Robert Dodaro, OSA (second mentor and the current president), and Nello Cipriani, OSA (third mentor).

- Languages:

a) Classical: Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Syriac, Old Church Slavonic;

b) Modern: Serbian, Italian, English, Russian, Bulgarian,  Spanish, French.

Professional Experience:

- Deacon from 1992 in Belgrade.

- Professor of Bizantine Painting at the University of the Third Age since 1993 in Belgrade.

- Parish priest in Smederevo (diocese of Pozarevac-Branicevo) from December 1,  1996 to 2002.

- Various exhibitions, individual (Frescoes, Icons, and Paintings) and collective in Serbia and Montenegro.

- Publications of various comic strips and illustrations in newspapers, reviews and books.

- During 2001 directed four TV transmissions about Christianity on Smederevo Television.

- In the Church of Corpus et Verbum Domini in Lavinio (Rome), celebrate Holy Liturgy in an community of Romanians.  

- Among numerous paintings realized in Italy meritted to be observed:

a) a picture for Pope John Paul II;

b) The cycle Hospitality of Abraham (10 m²) and various icons for Centro Ecumenico Internazionale per la Riconciliazione from Lavinio.

c) Also in Lavinio painted in fresco altar (16 m²) of the Chiesa del Corpus et Verbum Domini. That fresco was done with technique buon fresco by Michelangelo, reconstructed on the basis of the study: Michelangelo e la Sistina. La tecnica il restauro il mito, (Musei Vaticani e Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 1990).

d) For the Church Santi Pio ed Antonio in Anzio (Rome) has painted icon of the Mother of God Type Orans (2m x 1,60m).

e) For the Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum he painted several large icons: for the office of President (Mother of God Type Hodegitria and an icon that represents the unity of the Old Church: an Deisis by four Fathers Western and Eastern four), and others icons for the secretary's office and for the Library.

f) For Cardinal Fiorenzo Angelini a portrait of the Servant of God Abbot Ildebrando Gregori.

g) Protrait of Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone.

Publications:

a) Books:

- The canons of the Church. Synopsis, Belgrade 1997.

- St. Augustine, De beata vita, Translation and notes Zoran Djurovic, General Introduction by Nello Cipriani, Belgrade 2008.

- In preparation: The Gospel according to Mark. Translation. Fathers' comments. Modern Commentary.

 b) Articles:

- Typos and archetypos, in Beseda 1-4, Novi Sad 1993, 90-96.

- Early Christian Paideia, in Teoloski pogledi, 1-4, Belgrade 1995, 121-182.

- Teophanes the Greek, in Danube - the River of Collaboration, the International Meeting of Scholars from Danubian Countries, Belgrade 2001; repr. in Sabornost 1-2, 1998.

- Orthodoxy for Beginners, in Smederevska Sedmica (2000-2001).

- St. Augustine's Filioque in the Treatise 99 оn the Gospel of John, in Philotheos 7, Belgrade 2007, 218-231.

- The Theory of Icon by Pope St. Gregory II, in Živopis 2, Belgrade 2008.

c) Translations from Greek in Serbian:

- Paul Meyendorff, St. Germanus of Constantinople, On the Divine Liturgy, in Sabornost 3-4 (2000), 67-138.

- Catherine P. Roth, St. Theodore the Studite, On the Holy Icons, (only Third Refutal of Iconoclasts) in Sabornost 1-2, 1988, 39-70.