Metropolitan of Pergamon · 1931–2023
John
Zizioulas
Theologian of communion — bishop, philosopher and teacher whose thought reshaped the way the Church speaks of person, otherness and the age to come.
The Foundation
Latest Additions
- May 20, 2026The Third Annual "Metropolitan of Pergamon John Zizioulas" Lecture
- October 2025Doctoral Dissertation on the Theology of Ioannis Zizioulas Successfully Defended at the Gregorian University
- July 10, 2025Reflections on a Theological Milestone: John Zizioulas’ Eschatology at the European Academy of Religion
- July 8-12, 2025Panel Discussion on the Book Remembering the Future: Toward an Eschatological Ontology
In His Own Words
Eschatology is not simply a doctrine; it is an orientation, a perspective, a mode of existence. Eschatology does not concern only the future; it affects our past as well as our present. This is how the Church viewed and experienced the “last things” from the beginning.
Remembering the FutureToward an Eschatological Ontology, 2023
There is a pathology built into the very roots of our existence, inherited through our birth, and that is the fear of the other.
Communion and Otherness
When the Holy Spirit blows, He does not create good individual Christians, individual “saints,” but an event of communion, which transforms everything the Spirit touches into a relational being.
Being as Communion
Featured Book
Remembering the Future
In his final major work, Metropolitan John shows that eschatology has crucial implications for ontology — for being itself. The last things give the world its meaning: creation, personhood and the Church are read from the end, not the beginning.
Receive One Another
101 Sermons
On Being Other
God, Man, and Creation
Ascetic Ethos and Monasticism
Edited by Hieromonk Vasilije Gavrilović
The works of Metropolitan John Zizioulas are published exclusively by Sebastian Press, on behalf of the John Zizioulas Foundation · His titles at Sebastian Press
As Others Saw Him
Metropolitan John was the greatest Christian theologian of our generation.
Metropolitan John Zizioulas mounts a formidable challenge to atheism by affirming very simply that it is meaningless to discuss “whether or not” God exists in abstraction from the question of “how” God exists.
Metropolitan John Zizioulas is generally recognized as the most brilliant and creative theologian in the Orthodox Church today.
No other theologian since Palamas has had a comparable impact on Orthodox thought.
John Zizioulas is one of the most profound young theologians I’ve ever met.
The John Zizioulas Foundation, established on August 5, 2023, collects the official archive and publishes the writings of the late Metropolitan of Pergamon.