Promotions
On the 9th of May 2019, Dr. Bieke Mahieu, our general assistant was appointed as “professeur extraordinaire” by the Great Chancelor of the Ecole biblique.
On the same day, David Vincent was honoured with the IHEDN scholarship (pictured above).
Rev. Dr. K. Stephens, au centre, encadré par les membres du jury: profs. J.J. Pérennès, L. Popko, Sr. Luma Khuder, Peter Dubovski S.J., Paolo GarutiOn the 29th of May 2019, fr. Kevin Stephens, our chief IT developer, defended his dissertation brilliantly. He is now a Doctor in Biblical Sciences.
Congratulations!
Mariages et consécrations
- Marc Lobit and Mariam Souchard were married on 1 June 2019.
- Malouine de Dieuleveult and Thomas Gay were married on 25 July 2019.
- Thomas Duchesne received the cassock from H.E. Mgr Dominique Rey, Bishop of Toulon, on 1 July 2019. He will continue the extraordinary musical annotation of our Bible, while training for the ministerial priesthood.
L’abbé Thomas Duchesne- Bieke Mahieu will be consecrated in the Ordo virginum by H.E. Mgr Lode Aerts, Bishop of Bruges, on 15 September 2019.
Blessings and best wishes from Jerusalem!
Requiescant in pace
With deep sadness, we have learned the unexpected death of our dominican brother, Bishop Robert Christian O.P.
Fr. Robert was auxiliary bishop of San Francisco. A faithful and brilliant servant of the Church, he had warmly encouraged our work during his last visit to the Ecole with the ARCIC in May. May he rest in the Peace of the Lord!
We were also moved to learn of the death of Father Pierre Lenhardt on 1 July 2019.
Born on 5 November 1927 in Strasbourg, he entered the Congregation of the Religious of Notre-Dame de Sion in 1963. After studying philosophy, theology and ancient languages at the Institut Catholique de Paris, he spent seven years studying at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he obtained a licence to teach Talmud in 1976. He has taught in Jerusalem at the Christian Centre for Jewish Studies (Saint Pierre de Sion – Ratisbonne). He has also taught at the Catholic Institutes of Paris and Lyon, the Institut für Kirche und Judentum in Berlin and the Ecole Biblique in Jerusalem, as well as in various seminaries, religious communities, universities and parishes in many countries.
In 2004, Fr Pierre was awarded the Amitié Judéo Chrétienne de France prize for his life’s work.
His latest book, L’Unité de la Trinité. À l’Ecoute de la Tradition d’Israël was published in Paris in 2011 by Editions Paroles et Silence.
