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James Kelsey McConica OC FBA FRHistS FRSC CSB (April 24, 1930 – December 20, 2023) was a Canadian Roman Catholic priest, academic, and academic administrator.
In 1964, McConica co-founded, along with Natalie Zemon Davis, the Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium. He was president and vice-chancellor of the University of St. Michael's College in Toronto, Ontario, from 1984 to 1990. He was also president of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies from 1996 to 2008. He was also a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, the first Roman Catholic priest to be a fellow since the English Reformation.
One of the original members of the Collected Works of Erasmus (CWE) in English project of the University of Toronto Press, McConica edited a number of volumes in the series. From 1976 to 2018, he chaired the CWE editorial board.
McConica died on December 20, 2023, at the age of 93.
References
- "Fr. James Kelsey McConica CSB". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved December 23, 2023 – via Legacy.com.
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- https://www.gg.ca/en/honours/recipients/146-6622
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