Richard Connolly (monk)

Richard Hugh Connolly (1873 – 16 March 1948) was a monk of Downside Abbey in Somerset, England, and a major contributor to Syriac scholarship.

He was patristic scholar, born at Carcoar in New South Wales, Australia and educated in England at Downside and at Christ's College, Cambridge.[1] Barred for reasons of health from administrative or public roles he was trained by Edmund Bishop and belonged to a notable group of Cambridge Orientalists. He was a major contributor to the Journal of Theological Studies, the Downside Review and an early editor in the Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium.[2] He attended St Stanislaus' College, Bathurst, NSW, in 1889.

Major works

  • Anonymi Auctoris Expositio Officiorum Ecclesiae Georgio Arbelensi Adscripta,I, T. CSCO 64(Scriptores Syri 25),1911; V. CSCO 71 (Scriptores Syri 28),1913;II Accedit Abrahae bar Lipheh Interpretatio Officiorum (Scriptores Syri 29 &32), 1913 and 1953
  • Didascalia Apostolorum: Syriac Version, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1929 (Oxford Reprints, 1970)
  • The Liturgical Homilies of Narsai, translated into English with an Introduction. With an Appendix by Edmund Bishop (Texts and Studies, Vol. VIII, No.I, 1967)

References

  1. ↑ Connolly, Richard Hugh (1873–1948), in The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, edited by F. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone, third edition 2005.
  2. ↑ M.D. Knowles, Obituary notice of Dom R.H.Connolly 1873-1948. Journal of Theological Studies, Vol. XLIX, 1948
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