Associate Professor Doru Costache
Associate Professor, St Cyril's Coptic Orthodox Theological College
PhD Theol (Bucharest, 2000) BTh (Bucharest, 1993)
The Very Revd Dr Doru Costache is an Associate Professor of Theology (Patristic Studies) at St Cyril’s Coptic Orthodox Theological College, since 2017. He has over 25 years of experience in the tertiary sector, in Australia and Romania. He also is a research director of ISCAST (the Institute for the Study of Christianity in an Age of Science and Technology), since 2021, and coeditor of Christian Perspectives on Science and Technology, since 2022. Chairman of SCD’s Theology Research Network, since 2023.
He is a Fellow of the International Society for Science and Religion (ISSR) and of ISCAST, since 2020, as well as a member of the International Orthodox Theological Association and ANZATS, since 2022, and of the International Association of Patristic Studies, since 2013. He was a Selby Old Fellow in Religious History of the Orthodox Christian Faith at the University of Sydney Library (2021-2022), and an Honorary Associate in Studies in Religion at the same university (2017-2023). He co-chaired the ‘Cosmology’ group of the Templeton World Charity Foundation-funded project ‘Science and Orthodoxy around the World’ (National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, 2020-2023).
He is a Romanian Orthodox protopresbyter, with over 25 years of ordained experience, currently ministering to St Gregory’s Orthodox Mission (Mona Vale, NSW), since 2017.