Robert F. Taft
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The Right Rev. Archimandrite Robert F. Taft, S.J. |
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Taft in 2008
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| Other posts | Professor emeritus, Pontifical Oriental Institute, Rome, Italy |
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| Ordination | June 7, 1963 |
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January 9, 1932 Providence, Rhode Island, United States |
| Nationality | United States |
| Denomination | Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church |
| Alma mater | Fordham University and Pontifical Oriental Institute |
Robert Francis Taft, S.J. (born January 9, 1932) is an American Jesuit priest and Archimandrite of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, one of the 23 Eastern Catholic Churches in full communion with the Holy See of Rome; He is an expert in Oriental liturgy and a professor emeritus of the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome, of which he was the Vice-rector between 1995 and 2001.
Taft was born in Providence, Rhode Island, into the Taft family notable for their contribution to American politics. Taft entered the novitiate of the Society of Jesus on 14 August 1949. He did his initial spiritual and academic training in philosophy at the former Weston College in Weston, Massachusetts. During his period of regency that followed, he taught for three years at Baghdad Jesuit College. He returned to the United States in 1959 and pursued a graduate degree in Russian at Fordham University. He was ordained a priest of the Byzantine Rite on June 7, 1963.
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