Archim. Policarp Chițulescu
Archimandrite at Radu Vodă Monastery, patriarchal counselor and director of the Holy Synod Library in Bucharest. PhD in Theology – Christian literature; specialist in bibliophilia and rare books. His main research fields: history of printing, of books (manuscripts and printed) and of libraries, history of the styles and practices of writing, the history and circulation of ideas, cultural relations between the Romanian Principalities and Europe.
Publications: Cartea slavă din Biblioteca Sfântului Sinod – secolele XVI-XVIII, Bucharest, 2020; Reuniuni ale spiritului. Mitropolitul Tit Simedrea (1886-1971) și primele reuniuni spirituale din România, Bucharest, 2020; Antim Ivireanul – Opera tipografică (coord. ed.), Bucharest, 2016; Valori bibliofile din biblioteca istorică a Mănăstirii Radu Vodă din Bucureşti, Bucharest, 2016; Biblioteci de mănăstire, in Enciclopedia monahismului românesc – istorie, cultură, spiritualitate (The Encyclopaedia of Romanian Monasticism – History, Culture, Spirituality), vol. II, Bucharest, 2016, p. 243-397; Cărţi din vechile biblioteci medievale româneşti păstrate în Biblioteca Sf. Sinod/Books from Mediaeval Romanian Libraries preserved in the Holy Synod Library, Bucharest, 2011.
