Dom Louis Leloir, O.S.B., (1911–1992), originating from

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, Belgium, was a

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at the Abbey of Clervaux,

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. His preoccupations were with oecumenical relations, especially with

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, and with research into early

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and

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and

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. Leloir was ordained in 1935, studied at the

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in Rome, and was also at the Abbey of St. Jerome, Rome. He was granted his doctoral degree (''summa cum laude'') from the Biblicum in 1956 for his dissertation on the witness of

Ephrem the Syrian Ephrem the Syrian ( syc, ܡܪܝ ܐܦܪܝܡ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ, Mār ʾAp̄rêm Sūryāyā, ; grc-koi, Ἐφραὶμ ὁ Σῦρος, Efrém o Sýros; la, Ephraem Syrus; am, ቅዱስ ኤፍሬም ሶርያዊ; ), also known as Saint Ephrem, Saint ...

to the

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Selected works

*''Commentaire de l' Evangile concordant ou Diatesseron, par Ephrem de Nisibe, traduit du syriaque et de l'arménien'', par Louis Leloir Sources Chrétiennes no.,121, 1966. *''Le moine selon la tradition arménienne'', Pères Mékhitaristes de Venise, 1969. *''Désert et Communion-témoignage des Pères du désert recueillis à partir des "Paterica" arméniens'', Bellefontaine, 1978. *''Ecrits apôcryphes sur les Apôtres, traduit de l'édition arménienne de Venise'', Corpus Christianorum: Series Apocryphorum, 2 vols, 1986,1992 *"La "lectio divina" chez les Pères du désert", ''La Vie Spirituelle'', no.,740, 2001 A further 22 works by Louis Leloir are listed on Karsruher Virtueller Katalog search engine REGESTA IMPERII published by Akademie Der Wissenschaften unter der Literatur Mainz.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Leloir, Louis 1911 births 1992 deaths Belgian Benedictines Belgian orientalists Pontifical Biblical Institute alumni