ROBERT GODDING, S.J., Ph.D.
Visiting Professor of Church History

Contact Information

Loyola House of Studies
Ateneo de Manila University
Loyola Heights, Quezon City
Tel. (+63 02) 4266101

Courses

Early and Medieval Church History; Christian Treasures from the First Centuries: Discovering the Sources; Introduction to Patristics; Portraits of Saints, Models of Sanctity

Education

Licentiate in Sacred Theology (Theology and Patristic Sciences), Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum
Diploma in Paleography, Diplomatics and Archivistics, Scuola Vaticana di Paleografia
Doctor of Philosophy in History, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium

Professional Activities

Teaching Hagiography, Pontifical Gregorian University
Member, Redaction Committee of Revue d’Histoire Ecclesiastique (Louvain) and Hagiographica (Florence)

Research and Publications

A. Books

«Introduction» and «Complément bibliographique» in R. AIGRAIN, L’hagiographie. Ses sources – Ses méthodes – Son histoire. Reproduction inchangée de l’édition originale de 1953. Avec un complément bibliographique par Robert GODDING (= Subsidia hagiographica, 80), Bruxelles, Société des Bollandistes, 2000, VIII-539 p.

Prêtres en Gaule mérovingienne (= Subsidia hagiographica, 82), Bruxelles, Société des Bollandistes, 2001, LXVIII-559 p.

B. Articles

Gli studi agiografici sul medioevo negli ultimi trenta anni in Belgio, in Hagiographica 6 (1999) 137-152.

De Perpétue à Caluppan : les premières apparitions du dragon dans l’hagiographie, in Dans la gueule du dragon. Histoire- Ethnologie – Littérature (= Une ethnologie en Lorraine, Sarreguemines, Pierron, 2000, 145-157.)

Irish Hagiography in the “Acta Sanctorum.” In J. Carey, M. Herbert, P. O Riain (eds.), Studies in Irish Hagiography. Saints and Scholars. Dublin: Four Courts Press 2001, 289-316.

«Italia hagiographica. Chronique d’hagiographie italienne.» Analecta Bollandiana 112 (1994), 401-422; 114 (1996) 411-430; 116 (1998) 404-429; 119 (2001) 144-164 ; 121 (2003) 137-176.

«Le nouveau Martyrologe Romain» Analecta Bollandiana 119 (2001) 344.

«I martiri della Valle di Non e S. Alessandro di Bergamo» Civis 26 (2002) 183-187.

«René Aigrain agiografo.» Sanctorum 1 (2004).