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James Kelsey McConicaOC FBA FRHistS FRSCCSB (April 24, 1930 – December 20, 2023) was a Canadian Roman Catholic priest, academic, and academic administrator.
In 1964, McConica co-founded, along withNatalie Zemon Davis, the Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium. He was president and vice-chancellor of theUniversity of St. Michael's College inToronto, Ontario, from 1984 to 1990. He was also president of thePontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies from 1996 to 2008. He was also a fellow ofAll Souls College, Oxford, the first Roman Catholic priest to be a fellow since theEnglish Reformation.
One of the original members of the Collected Works of Erasmus (CWE) in English project of theUniversity of Toronto Press, McConica edited a number of volumes in the series. From 1976 to 2018, he chaired the CWE editorial board.
McConica died on December 20, 2023, at the age of 93.[1]
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