Rami WAKIM

Associate Professor
Coordinateur - CREDO arabe - Higher Institute of Religious Studies

Faculty of Religious Sciences
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
Doctorat - Théologie - patristique Centre Sèvres (faculté de Jésuites - Paris) France 2014
Master - Théologie - patristique Séminaire orthodoxe de Saint Vladimir (Etats-unis) Etats-Unis 2008
D.E.A - Théologie Université Saint Esprit de Kaslik Liban 2006
Licence d'enseignement - Théologie Institut Saint Paul de philosophie et de théologie Liban 2005
Terminales (Bac 2ème partie) - Théologie Institut Saint Paul de philosophie et de théologie Liban 2002

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).