Aurel Jivi
Aurel Jivi (1943–2002) was a priest in the Romanian Orthodox Church. He was a teacher and writer. Life. Jivi was born in Chişoda, Timiș County, Romania, on August 2, 1943. He took his first degree from the Sibiu Theological Institute in 1967 and then a master's degree in Theology from McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago in 1973. He completed his doctoral studies at the Bucharest Theological Institute in 1982, with a dissertation on "Orthodoxy in America". He became a full-time professor at the Sibiu Theological Institute, Department of Universal Church History, in 1983; he also taught at  the Faculty of Theology in Oradea, and lectured for several universities in the United States and Great Britain. He was ordained an Orthodox priest in 1993. Father Jivi wrote extensively on topics related to his field of research, but he was also a proficient translator. He died in Sibiu, in 2002.