Alenka Arko

Education

• Ph.D. in Theology, Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome (1999) with dissertation: The Inner Man in the Works of Gregory of Nyssa. An Anthropological Metaphor in the Search for a Holistic Evaluation of the Human Person.
• M.A. in Eastern Theology, Pontifical Oriental Institute, Rome (1995)
• B.A. in Slavic Studies and Ethnology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana (1990)

Academic Positions

2023–present — Associate Professor, Faculty of Theology, University of Ljubljana

1998–2022 — Lecturer in Patristic and Dogmatic Theology, Institute of St. John Chrysostom (affiliated with the Pontifical Lateran University, Rome), Catholic Seminary, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation

2007–present — Lecturer in Theological Anthropology and Eschatology, Catholic Seminary for Central Asia “Mary, Queen of the Church,” Karaganda, Kazakhstan

2017–2021 — Lecturer, Theological Institute of St. Thomas Aquinas, Kyiv (affiliated with the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas – Angelicum, Rome)

Professional Experience

Editor, Slovenian Section of Vatican Radio (Rome)

Editor-in-Chief, Folia Petropolitana (Sankt Petersburg)

Editor-in-Chief, Raduga (catechetical journal, Sankt Petersburg)

Editor-in-Chief, Church Documents series (Ljubljana)

Research Interests

Patristic Theology • Trinitarian Theology • Theology of Creation • Theology of Grace • Eschatology • Ecclesiology • Eastern Theology

Teaching Areas

Theology of the Holy Trinity

Doctrine of the Holy Spirit

Theological Anthropology

Eschatology

Mariology

Patrology

Biblical Greek

Memberships and Honors

Member of the International Theological Commission (Vatican) — appointed 2014–2019; reappointed for a new term 2021–2026

Member of the European Society for Catholic Theology (ESCT)

Bellarmino Prize for Doctoral Dissertation, Pontifical Gregorian University (2000)

Visiting Appointments

Catholic Seminary for Central Asia “Mary, Queen of the Church” (Karaganda, Kazakhstan)

Theological Institute of St. Thomas Aquinas (Kyiv, Ukraine)

University of Vienna, Faculty of Theology (Vienna, Austria)