Henry Wansbrough

Dom Henry Wansbrough OSB

The Very Reverend Dom Henry Wansbrough, OSB, MA (Oxon), STL (Fribourg), LSS (Rome), is an English biblical scholar and a monk of Ampleforth Abbey, England.

Born Joseph Henry Wansbrough, Dom Henry is Cathedral Prior of Norwich (2004–present), Magister Scholarum of the English Benedictine Congregation (2001–present), Member of the Pontifical Biblical Commission (1997–2007), Chairman of the Trustees of the Catholic Biblical Association (1996–present), and Emeritus Member of the Faculty of Theology in the University of Oxford (1990–present). From 1990 until 2004 he was Master of St Benet's Hall, the Benedictine Permanent Private Hall of the University.

He was General Editor of the New Jerusalem Bible. He has written twenty books, more than sixty articles, around ninety book reviews, an edition of the Synoptic Gospels, with an accompanying textbook, for 'A'-Level students, and more than fifty electronic booklets, essays, and lectures, as well as editing, co-editing, and translating other volumes. Today he resides at Ampleforth.^{[citation needed]}

Preceded by Fabian Cowper

Master of St Benet's Hall, Oxford 1990–2004

Succeeded by Leo Chamberlain

External links

• Home page at Ampleforth Abbey
• Home page at Oxford
• Works by or about Henry Wansbrough in libraries (WorldCat catalog)