- Richard Finn
The Very Reverend fr. Richard Damian Finn OP (born 1963) is Regent of
Blackfriars, Oxford .Richard Finn was educated at the
St Catherine's College, Cambridge (BA English, MA).He joined the
Order of Preachers in 1985 and was ordained a Priest in theCatholic Church in 1990.He read Classical Moderations and
Literae Humaniores atCorpus Christi College, Oxford , where he was awarded the Haigh Prize. After a period as Chaplain to theUniversity of Leicester he became Assistant Chaplain atFisher House, Cambridge . Meanwhile he completed a MPhil atJesus College, Cambridge . Returning to Corpus, he studied for a DPhil, producing a thesis entitled "The Christian promotion and practice of almsgiving in the later Roman Empire: (313-450)", which was supervised byAveril Cameron andPeter Garnsey . It formed the basis of his book "Almsgiving in the later Roman Empire: Christian promotion and practice (313-450)" (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2006).He became Regent of
Blackfriars, Oxford in September 2004.He is an adviser to the
Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics and Disabilities Officer for the Faculty of Theology.He has been a lecturer at the Centre for Christianity and Culture (Regent's Park College, Oxford) and at
Melbourne College of Divinity .ermons by Richard Finn
* [http://torch.op.org/preaching/preacher/9 torch.op.org Preaching]
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* [http://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/hall_staff.php Blackfriars, Oxford]
* [http://www.ox.ac.uk/publicaffairs/pubs/annualreview/ar05/11.shtml University of Oxford Annual Review 2004/05]
* [http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/backissues/9394/260594/coll.txt Oxford University Gazette]
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