Alexis Torrance

Biography

Alexis Torrance received his undergraduate and graduate training in Theology at the University of Oxford. He has held research fellowships at the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study, the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies at Princeton University, the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and Dumbarton Oaks in Washington DC. He has been a member of the faculty at Notre Dame since 2014. His research interests gravitate around the fields of Greek Patristic, Byzantine, and Orthodox Theology, with a special focus on the areas of Christology, theological anthropology, ascetic thought, and East-West relations. He is currently developing a project on the nature and practice of Orthodox theology. Professor Torrance co-chairs the Byzantine Studies program housed in the Medieval Institute at Notre Dame. He is an Orthodox priest of the Archdiocese of Constantinople and serves as the Orthodox Co-Secretary of the Joint International Commission for Dialogue between the Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches.