Richard Finn
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The Very Reverend fr. Richard Damian Finn OP (born 1963) is Regent of Blackfriars, Oxford.
Richard Finn was educated at the St Catherine's College, Cambridge (BA English, MA).
He joined the Order of Preachers in 1985 and was ordained a Priest in the Catholic Church in 1990.
He read Classical Moderations and Literae Humaniores at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he was awarded the Haigh Prize. After a period as Chaplain to the University of Leicester he became Assistant Chaplain at Fisher House, Cambridge. Meanwhile he completed a MPhil at Jesus College, Cambridge. Returning to Corpus, he studied for a DPhil, producing a thesis entitled The Christian promotion and practice of almsgiving in the later Roman Empire: (313-450), which was supervised by Averil Cameron and Peter Garnsey. It formed the basis of his book Almsgiving in the later Roman Empire: Christian promotion and practice (313-450) (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2006).
He became Regent of Blackfriars, Oxford in September 2004.
He is an adviser to the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics and Disabilities Officer for the Faculty of Theology.
He has been a lecturer at the Centre for Christianity and Culture (Regent's Park College, Oxford) and at Melbourne College of Divinity.
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