| LC control no. | n 85092252 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Taft, Robert F. |
| Variant(s) | Taft, Robert, 1932-2018 |
| Associated place | Rome (Italy) |
| Birth date | 1932-01-09 |
| Death date | 2018-11-02 |
| Place of birth | Providence (R.I.) |
| Place of death | Weston (Mass. : Town) |
| Field of activity | Orthodox Eastern Church--Liturgy--History Eastern churches--Liturgy--History Catholic Church--Oriental rites--Liturgy--History Catholic Church--Relations--Orthodox Eastern Church Orthodox Eastern Church--Relations--Catholic Church |
| Affiliation | Ukraïnsʹka katolyt︠s︡ʹka t︠s︡erkva Rossiĭskai︠a︡ greko-katolicheskai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ Jesuits Pontificium Institutum Orientalium Studiorum |
| Profession or occupation | Priests |
| Found in | The liturgy of the hours in the Christian East, 1983?: title page (Robert Taft, S.J.) page 4 of cover (born 1932) LC data base, March 28, 1985 (hdg.: Taft, Robert F.; usage: Robert F. Taft) Eulogēma : studies in honor of Robert Taft, S.J., 1993: page 1 (Robert Francis Taft, S.J., born January 9, 1932) Liturgy in Byzantium and beyond, 1995: title page (Robert F. Taft) Liturgy in Old Constantinople, 2008: title page (by Robert F. Taft) 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) 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) |
| Associated language | eng |
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