Savvas Agouridis (1921-2009), scholar

Savvas Agourides (b.1921) is a Greek scholar.

Biography

Savvas Agourides was born in Athens in 1921.

He graduated from Athens University Theological Faculty in 1943, and in 1950 earned his PhD from Duke University, North Carolina, USA. After his return to Greece, he became Orthodox Divinity Doctor of the Athens University, and in 1956 “agrege” in the chair of the New Testament.

He served as professor in the Theological Faculty of the University of Thessaloniki (1956-1968), and then moved to Athens University in 1968, teaching New Testament until his retirement in 1985.

He is a member of SNTS, was twice Vice-president of the “United Bible Society”, member of the “Academie des Religieuses”, president of the “Artos Zoes” Endowment for Educational and Philanthropic Purposes, and organizer of the “Ecumenical Biblical Conference of Orthodox and Roman Catholic Scholars”.

For twenty-five years he served as an editor of the “Bulletin of Biblical Studies.”