Andrew Louth FBA ( /laʊθ/ ;born 11 November 1944) is an English theologian. He is an emeritus professor of patristic and Byzantine studies in the Department of Theology and Religion of Durham University. [2] Louth has been at Durham University since 1996. Previously he taught at the University of Oxford (mostly patristics) and at Goldsmiths' College in Byzantine and early medieval history. He is a fellow of the British Academy and was a member of the British Academy Council from 2011 to 2014. [2] [3] He was President of the Ecclesiastical History Society (2009–10). [4]
Born on 11 November 1944 in Louth,Lincolnshire,he was educated at the universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh. [5]
Formerly an Anglican priest,he converted to Eastern Orthodoxy in 1989 and was ordained as an Eastern Orthodox priest in 2003.