Antoine Wenger (September 2, 1919, in
Rohrwiller
Rohrwiller (; ) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.
See also
* Communes of the Bas-Rhin department
The following is a list of the 514 communes of the Bas-Rhin department of France.
The communes coo ...
– May 22, 2009, in
Draguignan
Draguignan (; oc, Draguinhan) is a commune in the Var department in the administrative region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (formerly Provence), southeastern France.
It is a sub-prefecture of the department and self-proclaimed "capital of Ar ...
) was a French priest,
Patristics
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scholar and journalist. After studies in
Strasbourg
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and
Paris
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he taught at the Institut Catholique (Catholic University) in Lyons. Ordained priest in 1943 as an
Assumptionist, he pursued that order's interest in
Byzantine studies
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and journalism.
After a work appropriately devoted to developments in the doctrine concerning the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, a discovery at
Stavronikita
Stavronikita Monastery ( el, Μονή Σταυρονικήτα, ''Moní Stavronikíta'') is an Eastern Orthodox monastery at the monastic state of Mount Athos in Greece, dedicated to Saint Nicholas. It is built on top of a rock near the sea near t ...
monastery on Mount Athos enabled him to edit eight unpublished homilies of
St. John Chrysostom
John Chrysostom (; gr, Ἰωάννης ὁ Χρυσόστομος; 14 September 407) was an important Early Church Father who served as archbishop of Constantinople. He is known for his preaching and public speaking, his denunciation of ab ...
in 1957. In the same year he was appointed editor of ''
La Croix La Croix primarily refers to:
* ''La Croix'' (newspaper), a French Catholic newspaper
* La Croix Sparkling Water, a beverage distributed by the National Beverage Corporation
La Croix or Lacroix may also refer to:
Places
* Lacroix-Barrez, a muni ...
'' and helped to ensure that newspaper's profile as a prominent French daily. In this position he was assisted by a future editor of the journal, Noel Copin (died 2007), who assisted him in his coverage of the
Second Vatican Council
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. He also encouraged Jacques Duquesne in his coverage of the
Algerian War of Independence. On retirement he pursued dialogue with the Orthodox Churches and published a work on
KGB
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archives relative to the Catholic Church.
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wenger, Antoine
1919 births
2009 deaths
Clergy from Bas-Rhin
20th-century French Roman Catholic priests