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Ioan Sauca
Romanian Orthodox priest, theologist and Secretary general of the World Council of Churches
The Reverend Ioan Sauca (born 10 April 1956) is the acting general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC).[1] He assumed the office on 1 April 2020 after Reverend Olav Fykse Tveit resigned on 31 March 2020. He is to hold the office until the next World Council of Churches (WCC) committee meeting in 2021, was the Deputy secretary general in 2020.[2]
A senior priest from the Orthodox Church in Communist Romania, he was a professor of Ecumenical Theology in the Bossey Ecumenical Institute. He has been professor since 1998 and was the director of the Institute in 2001.[3]