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Rev. Regis J. Armstrong, O.F.M. Cap., Ph.D

Ordinary Professor of Spirituality

The John C. and Gertrude P. Hubbard Professor of Religious Studies

Specialization:

Historical Theology and Spirituality

Biography

"What we are before God, that we are and nothing else.
- Admonition 19, St. Francis of Assisi

Born on Long Island, New York, Regis John Armstrong, a Capuchin Friar Minor and a world renowned expert on Saint Francis of Assisi and Saint Clare of Assisi has authored nine books and many journal and encyclopedia articles as well as edited a number of other books. He earned a PhD in Historical Theology and Spirituality from Fordham University, and served his confreres in various positions of formation and administration.

In addition to translating and editing Francis and Clare: The Complete Works, and three editions of Clare of Assisi: Early Documents, he was Editor-in-Chief of the four volume Francis of Assisi: Early Documents, and has written St. Francis of Assisi: Writings for a Gospel Life, True Joy, along with a large number of articles-many have been translated into Italian, French, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese. He taught at the Pontifical University Antonianum in Rome-where he was also Vice Rector, and at the Franciscan Institute of Saint Bonaventure University, Olean, New York, as well as, the Franciscan International Study Centre in Canterbury, England-where he served for ten years as a Governor. He is a co-founder of the Franciscan Institute of Asia, where he also taught. More recently, he has been a member of an international committee of eight Capuchins established to study and rewrite a proposed edition of the Capuchin Constitutions.