Fr. Prof. Dr. Vasile Mihoc

Fr. Vasile Mihoc, born in 1948, is an Orthodox priest from 1969. He studied theology in Sibiu and earned his PhD at the Orthodox Theological Institute in Bucharest (1983). Between 1977-1979 he studied at the École Biblique et Archéologique Française in Jerusalem, where he graduated as titulaire (1978) and diplomé (1979).

In 1974 he started to work in the Theological School in Sibiu, where from 1983 he is ordinary professor of New Testament for graduate, post-graduate and doctoral studies. After the Romanian anticommunist revolution (1989), he helped the re-founding of the Theological Schools in Cluj-Napoca and in Arad, teaching for a while in these Universities, too. Fr. Vasile is member of the Society of Orthodox Biblical Scholars (from 1988); of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas – SNTS (from 1997) and of the Eastern Committee of the SNTS; of the Colloquium Oecumenicum Paulinum (Rome); founding member of the Inter-confessional Bible Society in Romania; founding member of the Inter-confessional Union of the Bible Scholars in Romania; vice-president of the board of the Orthodox Association “Lord’s Army” and member of the edition committee of the “Iisus Biruitorul”, “Lord’s Army” newspaper; member of the board of World Vision Romania; etc. He participated in the conferences of these organizations, as in many other national and international conferences. He published many theological studies in Romania and abroad.

Fr. Vasile is married to Octavia, and they have 13 children, five boys and eight girls (from 34 to 15 years old) and ten grandchildren.