Father Rami Wakim is a priest of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church and the Head of the Patriarchal Chancellery. He holds a Ph.D. in Patristic Theology from Centre Sèvres (Jesuit Faculties of Paris) for a thesis on Saint Maximus the Confessor’s logocentric anthropology in Ambiguum 41. He is a senior lecturer at the University Saint-Joseph of Beirut (Lebanon) and is currently coordinating the edition and publication of the Lexicon of Practical Theology in Arabic. His main research fields are Late Antiquity, Byzantine history and theology, history of ideas, formation of the Christian doctrine, and inter-Christian relations. Selected publications: “Conseil pontifical pour la promotion de l’unité des chrétiens”, “L’Église: vers une vision commune”, in Réponse catholique (1) et (2), translation, in Proche-Orient Chrétien, n° 69, 3/4, et n° 70, 1/4; “La Mystagogie de Maxime le Confesseur: l’être ecclésial et l’unité à Dieu”, in Proche-Orient Chrétien, n° 65, 3/4; “The Virgin Mary, a Model of Encounter: The Relevance of Qur’anic Mary to Christian-Muslim Dialogue”, in Mary, God-Bearer to a World in Need, Pickwick Publications, 2013.