Leo D. Lefebure

Leo D. Lefebure is the inaugural holder of the Matteo Ricci, S.J., Chair and Professor of Theology at Georgetown University. A long-time participant in interreligious dialogues, he is the author of the award-winning Transforming Interreligious Relations: Catholic Responses to Religious Pluralism in the United States. Lefebure is the vice president and president-elect of the American Theological Society, a former president of the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies, a research fellow of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and a trustee emeritus of the Council for a Parliament of the World’s Religions.