Bishop Eulogios Kourilas Of Kor (1880-1961)
Eulogios Kourilas or Evlogji Kurila (18801961) was the Orthodox bishop of Kor (Korytsa) in Albania between 1937 and 1939, and a professor of philosophy and author on religious matters. He was born in the Albanian village of Ziisht in 1880 and had an Albanian family background. During his youth he was attracted by ascetic and monastic ideals and joined the monastic community of Mount Athos. He graduated from the local Athonite School of Theology and continued his studies in the Philosophy department of the University of Athens, where he acquired his Ph.D. in Humanities. He participated in the Greek Struggle for Macedonia and during the Balkan Wars (19121913) he was in charge of 100 armed men, among them many priests, that fought for Greece in the area of Chalkidiki. After an agreement with the Albanian authorities, in 1937, the Ecumenical Patriarchate chose a number of highly educated religious personalities for key positions in the recently declared as autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania. Among them where Panteleimon Kotokos as bishop of Gjirokaster and Evllogji Kurilla as bishop of Kor. When the communist regime of Enver Hoxha came to power in Albania in 1945, he was declared an "enemy of the state" and was expelled from the country. Eulogios Kourilas wrote several historical, philosophical and theological books, and taught for a time as a professor in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He donated a significant part (10,000 volumes) of his library to the University of Ioannina.
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