Vladimir Petercă
Romanian theologian
Vladimir Petercă (24 April 1944 – 23 September 2022) was a Romanian Roman Catholic theologian who served as rector of the Roman Catholic Institute of Bucharest from 1995 to 2006.
Biography
Vladimir Petercă was born on 24 April 1944, in Mircești village, Iași County. He graduated from the Roman Catholic University with science degree in 1968 and was ordained priest on 15 August 1968 by Petru Pleșca, Roman Catholic Bishop of Iași and titular bishop of Voli. Petercă was part of the same class as the future Roman Catholic Archbishop of Bucharest, Ioan Robu.
With the support of Bishop Pleșca, he followed specialization studies at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome (1973–1977), becoming degreed in Bible and then a Ph.D. student at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome (1977–1981). On 1 November 1980 he defended a doctoral thesis in theology, titled "Image of Solomon in Hebrew and Greek Bible – a contribution to the Midrash's study". During the same period, Petercă followed two semesters of courses at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (in the first theological student exchange between Vatican City and Israel) and earned a bachelor of science degree from the Augustinianum Patristic Institute in Rome.
Back in Romania, during 1981–1995 he worked as lecturer, senior lecturer, and then professor at the Roman Catholic Institute of Iași, teaching courses in Biblical theology, Biblical exegesis, and Biblical languages. From 1990, he also taught introductory courses on the Bible in the Department of History at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University. He was a visiting professor at the University of Münster (1985–1986) and LMU Munich (1988–1989).
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