Very Rev. David M. Petras
Date of Birth: August 28, 1941; East Cleveland, OH
Maple Heights, Ohio, 1946-1959 St. Therese Grade School, Grades 1-6 Maple Heights Junior High and High School, Grades 7-10 Holy Name High School, Cleveland, Grades 11-12
B. A., Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, 1963 [resident at Byzantine Catholic Seminary, Pittsburgh] S. T. L., Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, 1967 S. E. O. D., (Doctorate in Eastern Church Studies), Pontifical Oriental Institute, Thesis: The Typicon of the Patriarch Alexis the Studite: Novgorod-St. Sophia 1136. Course work completed, 1970 Defense, Rome, 1982 Thesis Published, Cleveland, 1991
Ordained to the Priesthood, August 27, 1967 at St. Eugene's Church, Bedford, Ohio by the Most Rev. Stephen J. Kocisko September, 1967-February, 1970: Doctoral studies in Liturgy, Pontifical Oriental Insitute, Rome February, 1970-June, 1970: Assistant Chancellor, Eparchy of Parma, in residence at Holy Spirit Church, Parma June 1970-August, 1972: Pastor, Dormition Church, Akron, Ohio September, 1972-August, 1978: Pastor, Christ the King Church, Taylor, Michigan September, 1978-August, 1980: Instructor in Liturgy and Moral Theology, Byzantine Catholic Seminary, Pittsburgh, PA September, 1980-July, 1990: Pastor, Dormition Church, Akron, Ohio August, 1990-October, 1995: Pastor, St. Nicholas Croatian Church, Cleveland, Ohio September, 1992-October, 1995: Administrator, Holy Ghost Church, Cleveland, Ohio September 1995- : Director of Spiritual Formation; Professor of Liturgy, Byzantine Catholic Seminary, Pittsburgh, PA Ordained Archpriest, February 8, 2004, St. John’s Cathedral, Param, OH by the Most Rev. John M. Kudrick
August, 1979-August, 1980: Academic Dean, Byzantine Catholic Seminary, Pittsburgh, PA September, 1980-June, 1988: Adjunct Professor of Liturgy and Moral Theology, Byzantine Catholic Seminary, Pittsburgh, PA August, 1982-February, 1985: Diocesan Director of Continuing Education of Priests: 1983-1985: Liaison, Emmaus Program, Eparchy of Parma February, 1985-September, 1993: Chairman, Priestly Life Commission, Eparchy of Parma February, 1985- : Chairman, Liturgy Commission, Eparchy of Parma February, 1985- : Member, Board of Consultors, Eparchy of Parma February, 1985- : Member, Clergy Education Board, Eparchy of Parma July, 1985-February, 1986: Leave of absence from parish duties to write, Light for Life, an adult catechesis sponsored by the Eastern Catholic Bishops of America August, 1988- : Director of Seminary Education and Priestly Formation, Eparchy of Parma August, 1988-94: Adjunct Professor of Liturgy and Byzantine Studies, St. Mary's Seminary, Cleveland August, 1992- : Member, Presybteral Council, Eparchy of Parma September, 1993- : Member, Clergy Life Commission, Eparchy of Parma September, 1993- : Director of Ecumenical Affairs, Eparchy of Parma March, 1995- : Member, Building Commission, Eparchy of Parma July, 1995- : Member, Intereparchial Liturgy and Music Commission September, 2001- : Field Instructor, Duquesne University
Archeparchy of Pittsburgh Deacon Formation Program - Instructor in Liturgy and History, June 1999; June 2003 - Instructor in Liturgy - June 2000 - Instructor in History - June 2001 - Instructor in Liturgy - June 2003. June 2004
January, 1984- : Member, North American Orthodox-Catholic Theological Consultation May, 2000 - : National Association of Diocesan Ecumenical Offiers (NADEO) Board Member, Representative of Region XIV
1994, Member, Advisory Board of the Eastern Churches Journal
1976, North American Academy of Liturgy - 2002, Candidate for office of Delegate for Seminars 1985, Catholic Theological Society of America 1986, Societas Liturgica
Ambon Prayers, (privately published, 1972) Ambon Prayers (Fairfax, VA: Eastern Christian Publications, 2000) Confirmation in the American Catholic Church: A Byzantine Perspective, Washington: NCDD Resource Paper, 1980. Eastern Catholic Churches in America, Office of Religious Education, Parma, Ohio, 1987 Revised and updated in To the Ends of the Earth (Pittsburgh, PA: God With Us Publications, 1997) "The Liturgical Theology of Marriage," Diakonia 16,3 (1981), 225-237. "The Individual and Cathechesis," Diakonia 20,3 (1986), 152-174. "The Liturgical Life of the Byzantine-Ruthenian Church: Its Past and Future," Diakonia 25,1 (1992), 61-96. "Chrismation in the Byzantine Church," Focus on Catechetical Leadership 4,5 (November/December 1992), 3.10-12. "The Sunday of Pascha," in: Following the Star From the East. Essays in Honor of Archimandrite Boniface Luykx, ed. by Andriy Chirovsky (Ottawa, Chicago, Lviv: The Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Cahristian Studies: St. Paul University, 1992. "The Ecumenical Status of the Eastern Catholic Churches," The Greek Orthodox Theological Review 37, 3-4 (1992), 349-381. "The Balamand Statement and Hierarchial Reception," Eastern Churches Journal 1,2 (Summer 1994), 69-88. Light for Life: Part One: The Mystery Believed, (Principal Contributor), ed. by Fred Saato and Kent Plowman, Pittsburgh, PA: God with Us Publications, 1994. "Knowledge of the Eastern Tradition," in Diakonia 2,2 (Summer 1995), 219-221. Light for Life: Part Two: The Mystery Celebrated (Principal Contributor), ed. by Fred Saato and Kent Plowman, Pittsburgh, PA: God with Us Publications, 1996. "East Meets West: Ecumenical Connections," in Ecumenical Trends, 24, 7 (July/August 1995), 3-7. "Mary in Eastern Liturgical Tradition," in Liturgical Ministry 6 (Winter 1997), 11-20. "Balamand: Catholic and Orthodox Identity," in Eastern Churches Journal 4, 1 (1997), 29-52. "An Ecumenical Commentary: The Union of Uzhhorod," in Eastern Churches Journal 4, 3 (1997), 55-76 "The Gospel Lectionary of the Byzantine Church," in St. Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly 41, 2-3 (1997), 113-140. "The Vitality of Tradition: Insight from the East," in Diakonia 31,3 (1998), 157-166. "Ut Unum Sint: The Imperative of Ecumenism," in Orientale Lumen II Conference Proceedings - 1998 (Washington, DC, 1998) Consultor and contributor to: Worship Music: A Concise Dictionary, edited by Edward Foley (Collegeville, Minnesota: The Liturgical Press, 2000) "A Survey of the Liturgical Translations of the Byzantine Catholic Metropolia," Logos 39, 2-4 (1998), 241- 260. "The Public Recitation of the Presbyteral Prayers," Eastern Churches Journal, 8, 2 (2001), 97-106. "Issues: Light of the East: One Decade Later," One (September 2005), 11-13.
"The Hearing of the Eucharistic Anaphora by the People," Panagiotis Trembelas, originally in Léglise et les Églises. Collectio Irénikon. Etudes et travaux sur l’Unite Chrétien offerts a Dom Lambert Beaudin (Collections de Chevetogne 1955, Vol. 2, 207-220) translated from the French in Eastern Churches Journal 8,2 (2001), 81-96.
The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, Basil Shereghy, in Worship 46,2 (1972), 120-121. The Byzantine Slav Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, Casimir Kucharek, in Worship 46,5 (1972), 320-322. The Byzantine Divine Liturgy, by Meletius Michael Solovey, in Worship 46,10 (1972), 625-626. The Power of the Word: In the Worshiping Church, by John Breck, in Worship 61,6 (1987), 560-562. The Illuminating Icon, by Anthony Ugolnik, in Worship 64,4 (1990), 372-374 Ecumenismo e Catechesi, Segretariato Attività Ecumeniche, in Journal of Ecumenical Studies 28:1 (Winter 1991), 136-137 Russia, Ritual and Reform, by Paul Meyendorff, in Worship 68, 4 (1994), 381-383 Chiesa cattolica e Ortodossia russa, by Angelo Tamborra, in Journal of Ecumenical Studies 31,3-4 (1994), 377-378.
Catholic Theological Society of America - June, 1994 North American Academy of Liturgy - January, 1994 - 1995 - 1996 -1997- 1998 - 1999 - 2000 -2001 - 2002 - 2004 1994 - "Lectionary Problems in the Byzantine Church" (unpublished) 1996 - "The Relationship between Hymnography and Lectionary in the Byzantine Pentecostarion," (Oral report, unpublished) Societas Liturgica - August 2001 National Association of Diocesan Ecumenical Officers - May 1995 "East Meets West: Ecumenical Connections," (Publication info: 5 below) 2000 - Appointed representative, Region XIV (Eastern Churches) Attended meeting May 2000, May 2002; May 2003; May 2004
Canon Law Society of America (Midwest Regional Meeting) - Invited speaker, "Baptism in the Byzantine Tradition," - unpublished paper Weathersfield Institute, New York - October, 1996 "Liturgy and Spirituality," - unpublished paper Society for Catholic Liturgy (invited guest) - September 1997 Paper - "The Vitality of Tradition: Insight from the East," (Publication info: 9 below) Orientale Lumen Conferences - June 1997 - 1998 - 1999 1998 - Paper, "Ut Unum Sint: The Imperative of Ecumenism," (to be published in Proceedings) Translation Symposium, Stamford, CT - June 1998 Paper - supra - "A Survey of the Liturgical Translations of the Byzantine Catholic Metropolia," Logos 39, 2-4 (1998), 241- 260. (Discussion appended) Notre Dame Conference on the Eastern Church October 1999 - Presented paper, "The Liturgy and the Trinity" October 2001 - Respondent to lecturer Rev. Michael Woost