Taft, Robert F.
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Name (Latin)
Taft, Robert F.
Other forms of name
Taft, Robert, 1932-2018
Taft, Robert, 1932-
Date of birth
1932-01-09
Date of death
2018-11-02
Field of activity
Catholic Church--Oriental rites--Liturgy--History
Catholic Church--Relations--Orthodox Eastern Church
Eastern churches--Liturgy--History
Orthodox Eastern Church--Liturgy--History
Orthodox Eastern Church--Relations--Catholic Church
Occupation
Priests
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
Other Identifiers
Sources of Information
- Aleteia WWW site, viewed Nov. 2, 2018(Fr. Robert Francis Taft; b. Jan. 9, 1932, Providence, R.I.; d. Nov. 2, Weston, Mass., aged 86; preeminent historian of the Eastern Christian liturgy and an outspoken voice in relations between the Catholic and Orthodox Churches; entered the New England Province of the Society of Jesus, and spent three years of his formation teaching at Baghdad Jesuit College in Iraq; returned to the U.S. in 1959 and pursued a graduate degree in Russian at Fordham University; canonically transferred to the Russian Catholic Church; ordained a priest in 1963; taught at the Pontifical Oriental Institute, 1975-2011; in recognition of his solidarity with Catholics persecuted under Soviet rule, the Ukrainian Catholic Church made him an archimandrite)
- Eulogēma : studies in honor of Robert Taft, S.J., 1993:page 1 (Robert Francis Taft, S.J., born January 9, 1932)
- LC data base, March 28, 1985(hdg.: Taft, Robert F.; usage: Robert F. Taft)
- Liturgy in Byzantium and beyond, 1995:title page (Robert F. Taft)
- Liturgy in Old Constantinople, 2008:title page (by Robert F. Taft)
- The liturgy of the hours in the Christian East, 1983?:title page (Robert Taft, S.J.) page 4 of cover (born 1932)
- Wikipedia, viewed January 28, 2016(Robert F. Taft; Robert Francis Taft; born January 9, 1932, in Providence, Rhode Island; born into the prominent and politically well-connected Taft family; Jesuit priest and archimandrite of the Eastern Catholic Church; expert in Oriental liturgy and professor emeritus of the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome)
- His The liturgy of the hours in the Christian East, 1983?:t.p. (Robert Taft, S.J.) p. 4 of cover (b. 1932)
- LC data base, 3/28/85(hdg.: Taft, Robert F.; usage: Robert F. Taft)
- Eulogēma : studies in honor of Robert Taft, S.J., 1993:p. 1 (Robert Francis Taft, S.J., b. 01-09-1932)