honorific_prefix religion birth_place nationality honorific_suffix birth_date residence article_title name occupation alma_mater
the reverend roman catholic mylor bridge british o.p. 27 march 1963 cambridge blackfriars richard finn
 richard damian finn priest , academic , theologian , historian st cambridge corpus christi college , oxford catharine 's college , cambridge jesus college ,
richard finn

richard damian finn , o.p. -lrb- born 27 march 1963 -rrb- is former regent of blackfriars , oxford and currently is the novice master for the english province of the order of preachers .
richard finn was educated at st catharine 's college , cambridge -lrb- ba english , ma -rrb- .
he joined the order of preachers in 1985 and was ordained a priest in the roman catholic church in 1990 .
he read classical moderations and literae humaniores at corpus christi college , oxford , where he was awarded the haigh prize .
after a period as chaplain to the university of leicester he became assistant chaplain at fisher house , cambridge .
he completed a mphil at jesus college , cambridge .
returning to corpus , he studied for a dphil , producing a thesis entitled `` the christian promotion and practice of almsgiving in the later roman empire : -lrb- 313-450 -rrb- '' , which was supervised by averil cameron and peter garnsey .
it formed the basis of his book `` almsgiving in the later roman empire : christian promotion and practice -lrb- 313-450 -rrb- '' -lrb- oxford ; new york : oxford university press , 2006 -rrb- .
he became regent of blackfriars , oxford in september 2004 , and is chair of the advisory board of its las casas institute on ethics , governance and social justice .
he is an adviser to the oxford centre for animal ethics .
he has been a lecturer at the centre for christianity and culture -lrb- regent 's park college , oxford -rrb- and at melbourne college of divinity .
