Father R.F. Taft

In addition to serving as board member and/or consultant of several academic and ecclisiastical bodies, Father Taft is a founding member of both the North American Academy of Liturgy and of the Association of Jesuit Liturgists, and a member of the U.S. National Committee for Byzantine Studies, of the Society for Armenian Studies (retired 1999), and of the International Societas Liturgica.He was a member of the Governing Council of the latter society for ten years (1979 - 89), and its President from 1985 - 87.

Father Taft is a native of Providence, Rhode Island.He was ordained a priest in the Byzantine Slavonic (Russian) Rite in 1963.After receiving his M.A. in philosophy from Boston College, he spent three years as a missionary, teaching at Baghdad College, Baghdad, Iraq.He also holds degrees from Fordham University and Weston College (Mass.), the doctorate in Eastern Christian Studies from the Pontifical Oriental Institute, Rome and postdoctoral studies at the University of Louvain, Belgium.
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Below are Father Taft's remarks:
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[4] Abbreviated from R.F. Taft, Beyond East and West.Problems in Liturgical Understanding.