Rami WAKIM

Rami WAKIM

Associate Professor

Higher Institute of Religious Studies – Coordinateur CREDO arabe - Délégué à la recherche FSR

+961 (1) 421 000 ext 5814 rami.wakim@usj.edu.lb

Rami Wakim is a Greek Catholic Melkite priest, head of chancery at the Patriarchate and lecturer since 2018 at the Higher Institute of Religious Sciences (ISSR). He teaches patristics and Church history there. A graduate of the Saint Paul Institute (Lebanon), Saint Vladimir’s (New York) and the Loyola Faculties (Paris), he has published articles in peer-reviewed journals and has notable experience in organizing scientific events.His current projects include a study of Al-Burhan al-Sarih by Abdallah al-Zakher and an introductory book on Melkite identity, emphasizing the Incarnation and its implications for theology and worship.


Education

Degree University Country Year
Docotrate in Patristic Theology Centre Sèvres – Facultés jésuites de Paris France 2014

University teaching outside USJ

University teaching outside USJ Country Institution Start date End date
Lecturer Lebanon Université Saint-Esprit- Kaslik (USEK) 01/01/2014 30/07/2021

Professional experience outside USJ

Professional experience Organisation Start date End date
Senior Researcher Institute of Sud-Est European studies 01/12/2022 31/12/2026

Areas of expertise

Art, Humanities, Religious Sciences

Research themes

lAnthopologie chrétienne. l'Antiquité tardive. La Patristique grecque.La pensée chrétienne médiévale.La théologie liturgique.

Publications and communications

« la Mystagogie de Maxime le Confesseur : l’être ecclésial et l’unité à Dieu », Proche Orient Chrétien, N°3 année 2015.“The Commentary in the Melkite Lectionary: The Case of Patriarch Athanasios III Dabbās’s Lectionary of 1706”, in Scrinium: Journal of Patrology Critical Hagiography (Brill, 2023).“Patriarch Dabbās’s Gospel Books. A comparative study of his 1706 and 1708 versions of the Tetraevangelion”, in Arabic-Type Books Printed in Wallachia, Istanbul, and Beyond, (De Gruyter 2024).