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Written by Henry Wansbrough OSB
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Monday, 10 January 2011 00:00 |
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 Henry Wansbrough is a monk of Ampleforth. He has been Chairman of the Faculty of Theology at Oxford University, and served on the Pope’s Biblical Commission for eleven years. He is General Editor of The New Jerusalem Bible, and has written a number of books on biblical subjects.
The decision to found a Catholic Biblical Association was taken at the Easter meeting in 1940 of the Conference of Higher Studies, an annual gathering of Catholic teachers of tertiary education. The Chairman was to be Fr Cuthbert Lattey SJ of Heythrop, the Secretary was Fr Reginald Fuller. Cuthbert Lattey, in whose honour Reggie Fuller founded the series of Lattey Lectures, died in 1954.
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