Valerian Șesan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 28-Jun-1878
Place of Birth: Novoselytsia Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine
Date of Death: 10-May-1940
Profession: educator
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Valerian Șesan
- Valerian ?esan (June 28, 1878–May 10, 1940) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian theologian. Born in Slobozia Rarancei, in Austrian-ruled Bukovina, his father was a Romanian Orthodox priest.
- From 1888 to 1896, he attended the Romanian gymnasium in Czernowitz (Cernau?i), followed by the theology faculty of Czernowitz University from 1896 to 1900.
- After receiving a doctorate from that institution in 1901, he studied at the law faculties of Czernowitz, Vienna and Prague, obtaining a law doctorate at Prague in 1916.
- Meanwhile, in 1906-1907, he took specialty courses at Athens University and in Jerusalem.
- Then, from 1907 to 1908, he studied at the theological academies of Kiev, Moscow and Saint Petersburg.
- From 1909 to 1918, he served as a deacon at Czernowitz Cathedral.
- In 1918, the year Bukovina was integrated into Greater Romania, ?esan was ordained a priest; in 1920, he was made an archpriest.
- From 1911 to 1939, he served as Czech translator for the local appeals court.?esan joined the Czernowitz University faculty in 1913 as a teaching assistant in church law at the theology faculty.
- He became a substitute professor in 1918 and was full professor from 1919 until his death.
- He was faculty dean for 1921-1922 and university rector from 1923 to 1925 and from 1927 to 1930.
- Additionally, he was on the law faculty.
- Within the church, he sat on the higher-level consistory (1919-1925); played an important role in organizing the church hierarchy in the enlarged Romanian state; was economic adviser to his bishop (1925-1931), a member of the national church congress, delegate to an ecclesiastical congress held at Prague in 1928; and, from 1936 to 1940, presided over the Bukovina Orthodox clergy association.
- From 1922 to 1925, he directed the government's religious affairs department for Bukovina.
- He founded the Friends of Czechoslovakia Cultural Association at Cernau?i and belonged to the Bukovina society for Romanian culture and literature.?esan published a number of works on canon law, of interest both to Orthodox in general and to the Romanian church in particular.
- He wrote a textbook published posthumously and drafted legislative proposals for unifying church administration after 1918.
- He was an opponent of allowing the laity to exercise power within the church.
- His studies, articles, reviews and speeches appeared in Candela and Glasul Bucovinei at Cernau?i and in Cuvântul Preo?esc at Radau?i.
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