Monsignor Andrew Wadsworth, Ph.D. Headshot

Department

  • Greek and Latin
  • School

  • School of Arts and Sciences
  • Monsignor Andrew Wadsworth is a priest of the Oratory of St Philip Neri, and superior and founder of the Washington Oratory. After graduate study in Music, Italian, and Theology, he worked and taught extensively in the United Kingdom. From 2009 until 2023 he was Executive Director of the International Commission on English in the Liturgy, during which time he oversaw the completion of a new English translation of the Roman Missal, and almost the entire suite of liturgical books of the Roman Rite. He is the founder and Director of the St Gregory Institute for the Study of Liturgical Latin, a collaborative project between ICEL and the Department of Greek and Latin at The Catholic University of America. He currently teaches in the Theology Faculty of Georgetown University.