Elizabeth Livingstone
Elizabeth Anne Livingstone MBE (7 July 1929 – 1 January 2023) was an English Anglican theologian who studied early Christian writers (patristics). She earned an MA from the University of Oxford and held a Lambeth Doctorate of Divinity. She co-edited the first edition of The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church in 1957 with Frank Leslie Cross and edited later editions after Cross’s death in 1968. She also edited The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church.
After Cross died, Livingstone organized the Oxford International Conferences on Patristic Studies from 1969 to 1995 and edited the proceedings, published as Studia Patristica. She began with a committee of 26 scholars, but the number of editorial assistants shrank to 20 for the next edition, and later conferences do not mention editors.
She received the MBE in 1986 for services to Patristic Studies and the British Academy President's Medal in 2015. She was an Honorary Fellow of St Stephen's House, Oxford. Elizabeth Livingstone died on 1 January 2023 at the age of 93 in Iffley, United Kingdom.
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