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Reginald Foster

American priest and Latinist (1939-2020)

  • Fame44.1
  • Momentum0.0
  • Wikipedia567
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Lived 1939–2020, aged 81United States
United StatesUnited StatesReligious Figures
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    11 languages
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  • Era
    1939–2020
    Aged 81
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    Religulous
    2008
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Updated 2026-06-26

Reginald Thomas Foster was an American Catholic priest and friar of the Order of Discalced Carmelites. From 1970 until his retirement in 2009, he worked in the Latin Letters section of the Secretariat of State in the Vatican. He was an expert in Latin literature and an influential teacher of Latin, including 30 years at the Gregorian University, Teresianum and Urbanianum in Rome, and free summer courses that continued when he retired to Milwaukee.

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