Born in Nancy, France, he taught in England from 1949-51 before moving to the USA in 1952. A member of the Augustinians of the Assumption, he was ordained in Metz in 1947. He received a doctorate in Sacred Theology from the Facultés theologiques de Lyon. He was appointed as a peritus at the Second Vatican Council and served as a consultant to the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity. He was a member of the ARCJPC and ARCIC I, as well as ARC-USA and the Lutheran-Roman Catholic Dialogue in the USA.

Documents

• Scripture, Tradition and History
  July 1954
• Catholicity and Non-Catholic Christians
  July 1959
• Tradition in Early Post-Tridentine Theology
  Sept. 1962
• ARCJPC 5 ~ What is the Word?
  Huntercombe Manor, Buckinghamshire, 30 Aug. 1967
• ARCIC 48-5 ~ The Function of the Minister in the Eucharistic Celebration: An Ecumenical Approach
  1971
• ARCIC 75 ~ A Theological Approach to Ministerial Authority
  Poringland, Norwich, England, 1972
• ARCIC 49 ~ The Recognition of Ministry
  Apr. 1972
• ARCIC 70B ~ Comments on the Final Draft Paper ‘Apostolic Succession’
  Poringland, Norwich, England, June 1973
• ARCIC 70G ~ Comments on the Draft Paper on ‘Ministerial Priesthood in Relation to Christ and the Church’
  Poringland, Norwich, England, June 1973
• ARCIC 79 ~ ‘A note on the Poringland Draft’ and a ‘Tentative draft for a Statement on Ministry’
  Canterbury, 23 July 1973
• ARCIC 102 ~ The Church as Eucharistic Communion
  Vicksburg, Mississippi, Jan. 1974
• ARCIC 140 ~ Infallibility: a structural analysis
  Nov. 1974
• ARCIC 141 ~ Presentation of the St. Katherine’s Schema
  Oxford, Sept. 1975
• ARCIC 150 ~ Notes on the Papacy as Object of Faith
  1976
• ARCIC 147A ~ Comment by Fr. George Tavard on the Poringland, February 1976 draft
  26 Feb. 1976
• ARCIC 181 ~ Note on Peter in the New Testament
  1977
• ARCIC 223 ~ The Anglican-Roman Catholic Agreed Statements and Their Reception
  Mar. 1980
• The Contemporary Relevance of Justification by Faith
  1985
• ARCIC-II 325 ~ Commentary on ARC/USA statement on Anglican orders
  1990
• ARCIC-II 428A ~ The Gift of Authority, the Latest Report of the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission
  3 July 1999