Rev. Dr. Demetrios J. Constantelos

The Most Rev Dr. Demetrios J. Constantelos What a Big Theologian and Scholar for the Greek Orthodox Church and Hellenism !!

Demetrios saw something in an obnoxious. lost student and changed my life from the inside out. His patience, understanding and propensity to admonish properly when called for, directed my life towards ordination in the Orthodox Church. The lessons he taught me are reflected in my sermons, writings and how I teach others about the truth. May his memory be eternal.

Father Constantelos taught me how to pronounce Modern Greek. When I came to Rutgers in 1961 to study under the late Peter Charanis, he quickly informed me that my pronunciation was unacceptable, and that I'd better shape up quickly. Taking pity on a mere Classically-trained lad, Father Constantelos later made up a list of the main differences in the phonetics of Classical Greek on one hand, and Mediæval and Modern Greek on the other, and quietly slipped it to me at our Byzantine studies...

Father Constantelos was a friend and fellow Ph.D. student in the Department of History at Rutgers University. I sat through many seminars wiith this fine man next to me as we work through our dissertations in the presence of our esteemed professor, the late Peter Charanis. Anthony R. Santoro, Ph.D.

I knew Dimitrios when we were fellow doctoral candidates at Rutgers, under the late Peter Charanis - the Father was a good, kind man and a fine scholar; it was a privilege to have known him. Dean Miller (Emeritus, the University of Rochester)

You took an ignorant kid from a barrier island and admitted him to a world unknown and a history untold. The differences between us could absorb a whole word, yet you extended a hand of the teacher willingly and happily educating the ignorant. You gave more than I could ever return. You are my professor, and I will talk with you again. May God Bless and keep you.

With all my heart.

Jerry (Max) Slusher

One of the great scholar-theologians of the Orthodox Church will be missed. We both were together in Constantinople to be invested "Protopresbyter" by the great Patriarch Athenagoras. Since then he left his mark on numerous students and clerics through his writings and example. .

My prayers to the family,he will be missed.

Rev. Dr. Demetrios J Constantelos What a Great Scholar and Theologian Eternal Be His Memory
Stelios M ZERVOS MTS Holy Cross