Roland de Corneille
| Roland de Corneille | |
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| Member of the Canadian Parliament for Eglinton—Lawrence |
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In office 1979–1988 |
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| Preceded by | New riding |
| Succeeded by | Joe Volpe |
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May 19, 1927 Switzerland |
| Died | December 30, 2014 (aged 87) Toronto, Ontario |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Residence | Toronto, Ontario |
| Profession | Clergyman |
| Religion | Anglican |
Roland de Corneille (May 19, 1927 – December 30, 2014) was a Canadian Anglican priest, human rights activist and former politician.
Born in Switzerland, de Corneille spent his childhood in France and moved to the United States where he worked and received much of his formal education. He received his BA cum laude from Amherst College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa honorary society. He worked for Time Inc. as a statistician, and with Procter and Gamble. He studied at General Theological Seminary in New York and then transferred to Canada and graduated from the University of Toronto's Trinity College in 1953 as an ordained Anglican priest. He served as a curate and as a rector of a number of Anglican parish churches, while earning his degrees of Licentiate of Theology, Bachelor of Sacred Theology and Master of Theology in studies at McGill, Yale and Trinity College, Toronto. He died on December 30, 2014, aged 87.
In 1960, de Corneille was the secretary of the Nathaneal Institute, an Anglican missionary institute dedicated to converting Jews to Christianity. De Corneille initiated an interfaith dialogue between the Christian and Jewish communities that led to the institute transforming itself into "the Christian-Jewish Dialogue of the Anglican Church of Canada" with de Corneille as director. The Dialogue sought better understanding between the two faith groups rather than religious conversion. In 1966, his book, Christians and Jews: The Tragic Past and the Hopeful Future was published by Harper and Row.
De Corneille is credited as the first Canadian clergyman to urge the Christian community to re-evaluate its attitude towards Jews.
As a result of de Corneille's efforts, the Anglican Church re-evaluated its attitude towards the Jewish community and renounced proselytization in favour of understanding, dialogue and reconciliation.
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