Rev. Dr. Leo Lefebure
Professor, Georgetown University & Co-Chair, ICCGC-CoNGO 2025

[Biography]
Leo D. Lefebure is professor of theology and the inaugural holder of the Matteo Ricci, S.J., Chair at Georgetown University. He is the author of the award-winning Transforming Interreligious Relations: Catholic Responses to Religious Pluralism in the United States. His other award-winning books include Revelation, the Religions, and Violence; True and Holy: Christian Scripture and Other Religions; and The Path of Wisdom: A Christian Commentary on the Dhammapada, coauthored with Peter Feldmeier. Lefebure is the president of the American Theological Society, the co-chair of the Interfaith Coalition Conference for Global Citizens, a former president of the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies, a research fellow of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and a trustee emeritus of the Council for a Parliament of the World’s Religions.

Website at Georgetown University
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