J. Robert Wright

J. Robert Wright (B. October 20, 1936) is the St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery Professor emeritus of Ecclesiastical History at the General Theological Seminary in New York City. He is a specialist in patristic studies and an authority on the Anglican Book of Common Prayer and on Russian Orthodox and other icons. He is currently the longest-tenured faculty member at the General Theological Seminary.

Wright is also known for his engagement in ecumenical dialogues between the US Episcopal Church and other churches, particularly the Roman Catholic, Armenian Apostolic. and Russian Orthodox, as well as the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the Old Catholics and the Philippine Independent Church. He was the principal Episcopal author of the Called to Common Mission accord with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

Wright did his undergraduate work at the University of the South in Sewanee and also studied at Oxford University and the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies in Toronto.

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