John Zizioulas
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John Zizioulas was a prominent Eastern Orthodox theologian and metropolitan best known for his influential work on Trinitarian theology, ecclesiology, and the concept of personhood in relation to the being of the Church.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Zizioulas canonical | 2 |
| Ioannis Zizioulas | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T887403 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Zizioulas Context triple: [Social Trinitarianism, associatedWith, John Zizioulas]
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Kallistos Ware
Kallistos Ware was a prominent Eastern Orthodox bishop, theologian, and scholar best known for his influential writings on Orthodox spirituality and his role in bringing patristic texts to an English-speaking audience.
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B.
St. Gregory Palamas
St. Gregory Palamas was a 14th-century Byzantine theologian and Archbishop of Thessaloniki, best known for defending Hesychasm and articulating the distinction between God's essence and energies in Eastern Orthodox theology.
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Apostolos Valerianos
Apostolos Valerianos, better known as Juan de Fuca, was a Greek maritime pilot in Spanish service famed for reports of the strait now bearing his name between Vancouver Island and the Olympic Peninsula.
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D.
Petros Koumoutsakos
Petros Koumoutsakos is a prominent computational scientist and engineer known for his pioneering work in fluid dynamics and multiscale simulation methods.
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E.
Tarasios of Constantinople
Tarasios of Constantinople was an 8th-century Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople known for his key role in restoring the veneration of icons in the Byzantine Empire.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Zizioulas Target entity description: John Zizioulas was a prominent Eastern Orthodox theologian and metropolitan best known for his influential work on Trinitarian theology, ecclesiology, and the concept of personhood in relation to the being of the Church.
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A.
Kallistos Ware
Kallistos Ware was a prominent Eastern Orthodox bishop, theologian, and scholar best known for his influential writings on Orthodox spirituality and his role in bringing patristic texts to an English-speaking audience.
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B.
St. Gregory Palamas
St. Gregory Palamas was a 14th-century Byzantine theologian and Archbishop of Thessaloniki, best known for defending Hesychasm and articulating the distinction between God's essence and energies in Eastern Orthodox theology.
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C.
Apostolos Valerianos
Apostolos Valerianos, better known as Juan de Fuca, was a Greek maritime pilot in Spanish service famed for reports of the strait now bearing his name between Vancouver Island and the Olympic Peninsula.
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D.
Petros Koumoutsakos
Petros Koumoutsakos is a prominent computational scientist and engineer known for his pioneering work in fluid dynamics and multiscale simulation methods.
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E.
Tarasios of Constantinople
Tarasios of Constantinople was an 8th-century Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople known for his key role in restoring the veneration of icons in the Byzantine Empire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Christian theologian
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Eastern Orthodox theologian ⓘ bishop ⓘ human ⓘ metropolitan ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline | theology ⓘ |
| birthName |
Ioannis Zizioulas
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linked to:
John Zizioulas
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| centralConcept |
Church as Eucharistic community
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ontology of communion ⓘ personhood as relational being ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Greece ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1931-01-10 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2023-02-01 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Athens
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University of Harvard ⓘ
linked to:
Harvard University
University of Paris ⓘ
linked to:
Panthéon-Sorbonne University
University of Thessaloniki ⓘ
linked to:
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
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| fieldOfWork |
Trinitarian theology
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ecclesiology ⓘ ontology of personhood ⓘ theological anthropology ⓘ |
| influenced |
Metropolitan Kallistos Ware
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linked to:
Kallistos Ware
Miroslav Volf ⓘ contemporary Orthodox ecclesiology ⓘ contemporary Trinitarian theology ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Cappadocian Fathers
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Georges Florovsky ⓘ Maximus the Confessor ⓘ
linked to:
St. Maximus the Confessor
Vladimir Lossky ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Trinitarian theology in the Eastern Orthodox tradition
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communion ecclesiology ⓘ concept of being as communion ⓘ relational ontology of personhood ⓘ |
| languageOfWork |
English
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Greek ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople
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linked to:
Patriarchate of Constantinople
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| name | John Zizioulas ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Being as Communion
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Communion and Otherness ⓘ Eucharist, Bishop, Church ⓘ Lectures in Christian Dogmatics ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Katafygio, Kozani, Greece ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Athens, Greece
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linked to:
Athens
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| positionHeld |
Metropolitan of Pergamon
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Professor at the University of Thessaloniki ⓘ Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Glasgow ⓘ |
| religion |
Eastern Orthodoxy
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linked to:
Eastern Orthodox Christianity
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| theologicalTradition |
Eastern Orthodox theology
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Neo-patristic synthesis ⓘ
linked to:
Byzantine theology
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Referenced by (3)
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linked to: John Zizioulas