Johan Andersson is an lecturer in Practical Theology with Religious Behavioral Science. He was born in Botkyrka in the southern suburbs of Stockholm. Raised as a Swedish-Lutheran and lived for four years in a Swedish monastery but entered the Syrian-Orthodox Church in 2007, where he now serve as a sub-deacon.
Johan Andersson has studied in the St. Aphrem Patriarchal Seminary in Damascus Saydnada 2008-2011 where he received a Diploma from the late Patriarch H.H. Zakka I Iwas. Johan has worked for five years as a youth director and secretary to the Patriarchal Vicarate of Sweden.
Johan has also translated the Syrian-Orthodox Prayerbook of Shimo into Swedish 2016, other work of the Syrian-Orthodox Church Fathers like St Philoxenus of Mabbugh and Aphratat, and was part of a committee that translating the Syrian-Orthodox liturgy into Swedish together with Rev. Fr. Aday Marouki, Madlen Marouki and Bashar Yacob.
Role
Lecturer, Practical Theology with Religious Behavioral Science; Dean of Students; Head of Department of Allmän kurs, Democracy and Folkbildning
Email:
johan.andersson@sanktignatios.org
Detailed Biography and Publications
Teaching
At Sankt Ignatios Folkhögskola
Classical Syriac
Practical liturgics
Education
2021-2023, Magister in Theology, Eastern Christian Studies, University College Stockholm
2016-2021, B.A studies / Pre-Master studies in Theology, Eastern Christian Studies, University College Stockholm
2012 (to present), Employe at Sankt Ignatios College
2011-2016, Youth Director and Secretary, Patriarchal Vicarate of Sweden, Syriac Orthodox Church
2008-2011, St. Aphrem Patriarchal Seminary, Damascus Saydnada
Publications
2023, “The development of the night office in the Šḥimō according to the manuscripts of Mor Gabriel monastery (1474-1900): A study in liturgical change”, M.A. Thesis, available here
2021, “The Shhimo of 1890 and 1934 – Uniformity or diversity”: B.A. Thesis, available here
Translations
2016, “Shimo – Veckoböneboken enligt Syrisk-ortodoxa kyrkan av Antioka” SOKU
