Centre
for Eastern Christianity
Special
Guest Lecture
The current situation
of Christianity in the Middle East, especially Syria, after the Synod of the
Middle East's Final Declaration (September 2012) and the Papal visit to Lebanon
Antoine Audo SJ
Chaldean bishop
of Aleppo
Friday 19 October 2012
11.30-13.30
Marie Eugenie Room
Open
to all
There
is no charge for admission and no need to register in advance
For further information, please contact j.flannery@heythrop.ac.uk
Heythrop College, University of London,
Kensington Square, London W8 5HN.
Antoine Audo sj, Chaldean Bishop of Aleppo, Syria. Born in
Aleppo in 1946 he entered the Jesuits in 1969 and was ordained to the priesthood
in 1979. He commenced his academic formation with a ‘licence de letters arabes’
from the University of Damascus, 1972, followed by a doctoral thesis at Paris
III, Sorbonne, 1979. He completed his philosophical and theological formation
with biblical studies at the Pontifical Biblical Institute (Rome). and was for
a time professor in biblical exegesis at Université Saint-Joseph and Université
Saint-Esprit (Kaslik, Lebanon).
Bishop Audo has
lectured at the Centre for Eastern Christianity, Heythrop College on a number
of occasions in recent years, with papers published as ‘Eastern Christian
Identity: A Catholic Perspective’, in The Catholic Church in the
Contemporary Middle East, (eds), A.O’Mahony & J.Flannery, London,
Melisende, (2010), pp. 19-38; ‘Isaac of Nineveh, John of Dalyatha and Eastern
Spirituality’, One in Christ: a catholic ecumenical review, Vol.
44, 20.2, (2010), pp. 29-48. Other notable publications include: Zakî
al-Arsouzî un arbe face a la modernité Université Saint-Joseph, Faculté des
letters et des sciences humaines, Collection Hommes et Sociétés du
proche-Orient, Beyrouth, Dar el-Machreq, 1988; ‘Approches théologiques du récit
de Joseph dans Gn 37-50 et Coran sourate 12’ Proche Orient Chrétien
(Jersualem) , Vol. 37, 1987, pp. 268-281; ‘Storia e prospettive dei cristiani
in Iraq’, La
Civiltà Cattolica (Rome) 2008, (issue 3787) no. II, pp. 85-93; ‘Les chrétiens d’Iraq:
Histoire et perspectives’, in: Études
(Paris), Vol. 40, no.8, 2008, pp. 209-318; ‘Isaac de Ninive, Jean de Dalyatha
et la spiritualité orientale’, in: Mélanges en mémoire de Mgr. Néophytos
Edelby (1920-1995), Édités par PP. Nagi Edelby & Pierre Masri,
Collection: Textes et Études sur l’Orient chrétien, Vol. 4, Beirut, Université
St. Joseph, CEDRAC, 2005, pp. 43-62; ‘The Synod of Bishops: The Catholic Church in the
Middle East’, One in Christ: a catholic ecumenical review, Vol. 44,
20.2, (2010), pp. 196-200; ‘Between
Christians and Muslims a Pathway of Communion’ in: The Restless Middle East. Between political Revolts and confessionalTensions, Oasis 13 (2011) http://www.oasiscenter.eu/node/7149.