- J. Robert Wright
J. Robert Wright (
October 20 ,1936 ) is the St. Mark's in the Bowery Professor of Ecclesiastical History atGeneral Theological Seminary inNew York City 1. A specialist inpatristic studies and the world's leading authority on the AnglicanBook of Common Prayer and on Russian Orthodox and other icons, he is also renowned for his engagement in ecumenical dialogues between the US Episcopal Church and other churches, particularly theRoman Catholic ,Armenian Apostolic . andRussian Orthodox , as well as theEvangelical Lutheran Church in America , theOld Catholics and thePhilippine Independent Church . He was the principal Episcopal author of theCalled to Common Mission accord with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America,Wright did his undergraduate work at the
University of the South inSewanee and also studied atOxford University and thePontifical Institute of Medieval Studies inToronto . He is currently the longest-tenured faculty member at General Theological Seminary.A "festschrift" in his honor, "One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism: Studies in Christian Ecclesiality and Ecumenism in honor of J. Robert Wright," edited by Marsha L. Dutton and Patrick Terrell Gray, was published in 2006 by
Eerdmans on the occasion of Wright's seventieth birthday2.He has written a history of St. Thomas Church (New York City), as well as a history of the Church and the English Crown in the fourteenth century, based on his research into the records of Archbishop
Walter Reynolds . In2008 , he published a commentary on the "Ecclesiastical History" of theVenerable Bede .He is the president of the US
Anglican Society and the chaplain, in perpetuity, of theGuild of Scholars of The Episcopal Church . Wright is also the Historiographer of the Episcopal Church in the US. In 2007, he was awarded theArchbishop of Canterbury 's Cross of St. Augustine for his scholarly contribution to ecumenical dialogue.Notes
1. See www.gts.edu/docs/wrightvitae2005.pdf
2. See http://www.gts.edu/news_view.asp?langdisp=&id=153
External links
* [http://www.gts.edu/jrobert_wright.asp J. Robert Wright at General Theological Seminary]
* [http://anglicanhistory.org/essays/wright/index.html J. Robert Wright at Project Canterbury]
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