Louis Bouyer

Along with Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Hans Urs von Balthasar, and others, he was a co-founder of the international review Communio. He was chosen by the pope to be part of a team to initiate the International Theological Commission in 1969.

Louis Bouyer studied at Protestant Faculty of Theology in Paris and Faculté de théologie protestante de Strasbourg. The recorded working language is French. Employment is recorded with Catholic University of Paris and College of Juilly. Distinctions recorded are Cardinal-Grente Prize.

• Honorific Prefix — The Reverend Fr • Name — Louis Bouyer • Born — 17 February 1913 • Birthplace — Paris, France • Died — 22 October 2004 • Place of death — Paris, France • Occupation — Priest, scholar • Religion — Christianity • Church — Catholic Church (formerly Lutheran) • Congregations — Oratory of Jesus

Born into a Protestant family in Paris, Bouyer, after receiving a degree from the Sorbonne, studied theology with the Protestant faculties of the universities of Paris and then Strasbourg. He was ordained a Lutheran minister in 1936 and served as vicar of the Lutheran parish of the Trinity in Paris until World War II. In 1939, the study of the Christology and ecclesiology of Athanasius of Alexandria led Bouyer to the Catholic Church. Received into the Catholic Church at the Abbey of Saint Wandrille (Seine-Maritime) in 1944, he entered the congregation of the priests of the Oratory of Jesus and remained with them the rest of his life. He was a professor at the Catholic Institute of Paris until 1963 and then taught in England, Spain, and the United States. In 1969 he wrote The Decomposition of Catholicism, which presented what he saw as important liturgical and dogmatic problems in the church. Twice appointed by the pope to the International Theological Commission, he was a consultant at the Second Vatican Council for the liturgy, the Congregation of Sacred Rites and Secretariat for Christian Unity, recording in his memoirs a general negative impression of the council. In 1999 he received the Cardinal-Grente prize of the French Academy for all his work. He died on 22 October 2004 in Paris after many years with Alzheimer's. He was buried at the cemetery of the Abbey of Saint Wandrille.

Louis Bouyer is recorded with the occupation university teacher. Recorded with the occupation Catholic priest. Recorded as having studied at Protestant Faculty of Theology in Paris and Faculté de théologie protestante de Strasbourg.