Richard Connolly (monk)

Richard Hugh Connolly (1873 – 16 March 1948) was a monk of Downside Abbey and a major contributor to Syriac scholarship. He was patristic scholar, born at Carcoar in New South Wales, Australia and educated in England at Downside and at Christ's College, Cambridge. Barred for reasons of health from administrative or public roles he was trained by Edmund Bishop and belonged to a notable group of Cambridge Orientalists. He was a major contributor to the Journal of Theological Studies, the Downside Review and an early editor in the Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium. He attended St Stanislaus' College, Bathurst, NSW, in 1889.

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• Richard connolly and catholic sacred liturgical music of the 1960s in australia
• Major works
• References