Zoran Vujisić

Zoran Vujisić is an Archimandrite of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Mexico.

Personal

Zoran Vujisić was born on January 30, 1957. As a child, he lived in the Yugoslavia, West Germany, and Australia. He is fluent in English, German, Montenegrin, Serbo-Croatian, and Spanish.

Education

Zoran Vujisić earned a bachelor's degree from Thomas Edison State College and a Licentiate of Sacred Theology at St. Sophia Ukrainian Orthodox Seminary. He later earned a Master of Arts in Education at the Puerto Rico campus of the University of Phoenix. He was also awarded the degree of Doctor of Ministry in Marriage and Family Therapy from Southern Christian University.

Zoran completed 2 research doctoral degrees. He earned a Ph.D. in English and Applied Linguistics at Rhodes University and a Th.D. from the University of South Africa. His Ph.D. research focused on interlanguage fossilization. His Th.D. in Practical Theology was awarded for research on the treatment of depression and anxiety using orthodox psychotherapy.

Church appointments

Zoran Vujisić was director, from 1982 through 1988, of St. Mary’s Orthodox Community Welfare Center. He was ordained to the diaconate on January 29, 1988 and to the priesthood on February 15, 1989, after which he was assigned as priest of St. Mary’s Pan-Orthodox Parish. He was awarded the Patriarchal Medal of the Order of St. Ignatius of Antioch by the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East. While at St. Mary’s, he also served at Holy Annunciation Romanian Orthodox Parish and St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Parish.

Puerto Rican Mission

Zoran Vujisić established St. Spyridon’s Orthodox Mission in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1996. He was elevated to the rank of Archimandrite and served as such for over 9 years in the Ecumenical Patriarchate’s Archdiocese of Mexico.

St. Gregory Nazianzen Orthodox Institute

Zoran Vujisić established the St. Basil of Ostrog Orthodox Theological Institute, a Spanish-language theological studies program. The Institute was combined with an English-language program in 2009, and now has 72 students from 17 countries. The Institute became an academic unit of the Universidad Rural de Guatemala, and is authorized to grant bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in Orthodox Studies, Business Administration, Computer Science, Education, General Studies, Hellenic Studies, and Slavic Studies.

Election to the Episcopacy

Zoran Vujisić was elected as the Bishop of Tralles in September 2009. In December 2009, Zoran requested that his consecration be temporarily postponed. Instead, he was appointed to the rank of Archiepiscopal Vicar of the General Secretariat for Pan-Orthodox Ministries.

Academic work

Zoran Vujisić was a professor of the School of Human and Social Sciences at the University of Turabo in Puerto Rico. He has published papers and books on ethics, linguistics, neptic-psychotherapy, philosophy, psychology, and spirituality.

References

• Taken (with permission) from an article by Helen Andujar at St. Peter of Cetinje Orthodox Missionary Brotherhood
• Glossa
• St. Gregory Nazianzen Orthodox Institute [1]

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