Abbot Timothy Wright

The Winner of the Special Session Interreligious Dialogue: Islam and Christianity

Dr Abbot Timothy Wright OSB is a lecturer of the University of Saint Martin&rsquos. He used to be the spiritual director for the Pontifical Beda College in Rome and the delegate of the Abbot Primate of the Benedictine Confederation for monastic-Muslim relations. He served as abbot of Ampleforth Abbey from 1997 to 2005, during which time he and Dr Mohammad Ali Shomali organized a series of dialogue between Catholic monks and theologians and Shi&rsquoa Muslims from Iran. He is the author of No Peace without Prayer (2013).