Ome, Heinz

Heinz Ohme studied evangelical theology in Berlin and Tübingen . In 1975 - 1977 he was a scholar of the Greek Orthodox Church in Thessaloniki . In 1979, he was ordained as pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Bavaria . In 1979 - 1983, in the Department for External Church Relations of the Evangelical Church of Germany (ETSG) in Frankfurt am Main, he worked as an assistant in relations with Orthodox Churches. Then he managed the parish and at the same time from 1983–1990 created and headed the “Studienkolleg” for the Orthodox fellows of the EKG in Erlangen (Studienkolleg is an educational institution where foreign students are trained to study in German universities).

In 1989, OME defended his thesis and received a doctoral degree. After that, in 1990-1996, he worked as a research assistant at the Department of History and Theology of the Christian East under the direction of Karl-Christian Felmi at the Theological Faculty in Erlangen . 1995 there was a habilitation on the specialty History of Christianity

1996 was invited to the University. Humboldt to Berlin as a professor at the Department of the History of Churches and Confessions / History of Eastern Churches. In 2003-2005 he was the dean of this faculty. One of the most important subjects of his research activity is the history of cathedrals .

1992-2011 Ome was a member of the ECG Committee on the bilateral theological dialogue with the Romanian Orthodox Church . From 2010 to 2014, he was the first chairman of the Society for the Study of the Christian East (GSCO).

• Das Concilium Quinisextum und seine Bischofsliste (= Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte 56). de Gruyter, Berlin-New York 1990.
• Kanon ekklesiastikos. Die Bedeutung des altkirchlichen Kanonbegriffes (= Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte 67). de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1998.
• Concilium Quinisextum. Das Konzil Quinisextum. Griechisch-Deutsch. Translation and introduction (= Fontes Christiani 82). Brepols, Turnhout 2006.
• Concilium Constantinopolitanum a. 691/2 in Trullo habitum (Concilium Quinisextum) (= Acta Conciliorum Oecumenicorum ser. II 2.4). de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2013.