SPÁČIL, TEOFILO. - Professor of comparative Byzantine-Slavic theology at the Pontifical Institute of Oriental Studies in Rome (1918-37).

Born on 25 April 1875 at Výmyslice in Moravia, died on 5 or 8 December 1950, confined in the monastery of Osek near Teplice in Bohemia. After having been a student at the German College in Rome (1895-1902), he entered (1905) the Society of Jesus. Between 1912 and 1918 he was professor of philosophy and fundamental theology at the University of Innsbruck. From 1938 to 1945 he governed the Jesuit province of Bohemia. Among the first professors of the Oriental Institute, he cooperated in laying the foundations of comparative Christian Oriental theology, especially with his studies that appeared in Orientalia Christiana, then Or. Chr. Analecta and Or. Chr. Periodica. His investigations into the teaching of the separated Oriental theologians concerning the Church, Baptism and the Eucharist are worthy of note. He was the first to write on comparative fundamental theology and on the doctrine of the separated theologians on the Sacraments in general.

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BIBL.: biographical notes and the list of his publications are found in Or. Chr. Per., 17 (1951), 220-23.

Bernardo Schultze

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