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Ioan Sauca of the Romanian Orthodox Church and Peter Prove, a Lutheran
lawyer and international affairs expert from Australia, have been named
to key staff positions in the World Council of Churches. 
Sauca,
professor and director of the WCC’s Ecumenical Institute in Bossey, is
the new WCC associate general secretary for ecumenical formation and
education, and Prove is the new director of the WCC Commission of the
Churches on International Affairs (CCIA). Each of the two ecumenical
leaders is noted for long-time service in his field.
Sauca has
served in the past as director of Ecumenical Church Relations, Press and
Communication, and Religious Education in his home church in Romania
and also taught missiology and ecumenism at the Faculty of Theology in
Sibiu, Romania.
Sauca was responsible for Orthodox Studies and
Relationships in Mission in the WCC from 1994, and in 1998 was appointed
lecturer at the Ecumenical Institute. A graduate of the Ecumenical
Institute himself, he holds a PhD in missiology from the University of
Birmingham in England. His main field of scholarship is systematic
theology, with particular emphasis on issues of mission and
spirituality.
The CCIA director Peter Prove, educated at the
University of Queensland, has recently stepped down as executive
director of the Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance. He previously worked as
assistant general secretary for international affairs and human rights
at the Lutheran World Federation. As part of his extensive experience of
relations with the United Nations, Prove has served as a member of the
International Advisory Group on Universal Access of UNAIDS, and of the
Advisory Group on Responsible Sovereign Lending and Borrowing of the
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
He
was also president of the Committee of NGOs on Human Rights, Geneva, and
a founding member of the International Dalit Solidarity Network and the
International NGO Committee on Human Rights in Trade and Investment.
Prove is currently serving on the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda
Council on the Role of Faith.
The outgoing director of the CCIA, Dr Mathews George Chunakara, will continue in this position until 31 July.
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