Richard Hugh Connolly (1873 – 16 March 1948) was a monk of

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in Somerset, England, and a patristic scholar who was a major contributor to

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scholarship. He was born at

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in New South Wales, Australia, and attended

St Stanislaus' College , motto_translation = But we (Trust) in the name of the Lord , established = , type = Independent secondary day and boarding school , denomination = Roman Catholic , religious_affiliation = ...

, Bathurst, in 1889. He continued his education in England at Downside and at Christ's College, Cambridge. He made his solemn profession at Downside Abbey in 1896, was ordained priest in 1899, and became Head of Benet House, Cambridge (1904–16), where he was closely associated with some outstanding patristic scholars in the university (J. A. Robinson, F. C. Burkitt, J. F. Bethune-Baker). His main work lay in the field of early Syrian Christianity. Barred for reasons of health from administrative or public roles he was trained by

Edmund Bishop Edmund Bishop (17 May 1846 in Totnes – 17 February 1917 in Barnstaple) was an English Roman Catholic historian of Christian liturgy. He collaborated with Francis Aidan Gasquet, OSB, in the writing of two notable works in this field. Life Bis ...

and belonged to a notable group of Cambridge Orientalists. He was a major contributor to the

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, the Downside Review and an early editor in the Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium.M.D. Knowles, Obituary notice of Dom R.H.Connolly 1873-1948. Journal of Theological Studies, Vol. XLIX, 1948

Major works

*''Life of St. Rita of Cascia'' (1903) *'' Anonymi Auctoris Expositio Officiorum Ecclesiae Georgio Arbelensi Adscripta, I, T. CSCO 64(Scriptores Syri 25),1911; V. CSCO 71 (Scriptores Syri 28),1913;II Accedit Abrahae bar Lipheh Interpretatio Officiorum (Scriptores Syri 29 &32)'', 1913 and 1953 *''Didascalia Apostolorum: Syriac Version'', Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1929 (Oxford Reprints, 1970) *''The Liturgical Homilies of Narsai, translated into English with an Introduction. With an Appendix by Edmund Bishop'' (Texts and Studies, Vol. VIII, No.I, 1967)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Connolly, Richard 1873 births 1948 deaths English Christian monks 19th-century Christian monks 20th-century Christian monks People from the Central West (New South Wales) People educated at St Stanislaus' College (Bathurst)