biography
pronunciation:
[wiygl]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1906–64)
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| biography:
| Catholic priest, and theologian, born in Buffalo, New York, USA. A Jesuit, he was a theology professor in Chile (1937–48) and at a Jesuit seminary in Maryland (from 1949). He was a pioneering advocate of ecumenism, and played a key role as interpreter and liaison for non-Catholics at the Second Vatican Council. |
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