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

• ARCIC-140 ~ Infallibility: a structural analysis
• ARCIC-141 ~ Presentation of the St. Katherine’s Schema
• 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
  , Jan. 1974
• 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