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Fr Dr Gregorios (Magdi) Awad

Senior Lecturer in Ancient Languages, Church History and Systematic Theology

BA, MA, PhD

Biography

Fr Gregorios attained a Ph.D from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece in Dogmatic Theology, and a Ph.D. from Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany in Christian Oriental Studies. He lectures in Church History, Dogmatic and Systematic Theology, and Coptic Language. His areas of interest also include Christian-Arabic Studies and Philosophy. Ordained to the priesthood in the Coptic Orthodox Church in 2015, Fr Gregorios also lectures at the Coptic Theological Seminary in Cairo. 

Education

  • BA – Alexandria University
  • MA – Higher Institute of Coptic Studies in Cairo
  • PhD - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
  • PhD - Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany

Recent Research Outputs

Books

(2007) Untersuchungen zur koptischen Psalmodie. Christologische und liturgische Aspekte, Studien zur orientalischen Kirchengeschichte 41. (Berlin & Münster: Verlag). 

Selected peer-reviewed journal articles/book chapters

(2021) “A Correspondence between Rome and Alexandria in the Middle Ages: An Example from the Eighteenth Century.” In: Copts in Modernity. Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity (22), eds. Lisa Agaiby, Mark N. Swanson, Nelly van Doorn Harder (Leiden & Boston: Brill), pp. 39-55.

(2013) “A hymn of the three Children. Between the Coptic psalmody and Ms. 68 Coptic in the Paris National library.” In: From Old Cairo to the New World: Coptic studies presented to Gawdat Gabra on the Occasion of his Sixty-fifth birthday, Colloquia Antiqua Supplement to the Journal of Ancient West and East, eds. Youhanna N. Youssef and Samuel Moawad (Leuven: Peeters), pp. 5-14.

(2012) “An Arabic Apocalypse about Hell and Paradise attributed to St. Athanasius of Alexandria.” In: Sehnsucht nach der Hölle?  Höllen- und Unterweltsvorstellungen in Orient und Okzident. Studies in Oriental Religions 63, eds. Jürgen Tubach, Armenuhi Drost-Abgarjan and Guliko S Vashalomidze (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag), pp. 63-84.

(2008) “Die koptischen und griechischen Wörter in der ägyptischen Umgangssprache der Gegenwart.“ In: Vom Nil an die Saale. Festschrift für Arafa Mustafa zum 65. Geburtstag von  Arafa Mustafa, eds. Armenuhi Drost-Abgarjan, Jens Kotjatko and Jürgen Tubach (Halle: Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg), pp. 35-49.

(2007) “Stammen die sieben koptischen Theotokien aus dem 5. Jh. in: X. Internationales Hallesches Koptologentreffen 2006.“ In: Stabilisierung und Profilierung der koptischen Kirche im 4. Jahrhundert, eds. Ute Pietruschka and Sophia G. Vashalomidze (Halle: Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg), pp. 7–25.

(2007) “Die Renaissance der koptischen Kirche im 19. und 20. Jh.“ In: Der Christliche Orientund seine UmweltGesammelte Studien zu Ehren Jürgen Tubachsanläßlich seines 60. Geburtstags, eds. Sophia G. Vashalomidze and Lutz Greisiger (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag), pp. 319-326.