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Pax Christi Award Recipients

The Pax Christi is the highest award bestowed by Saint John's Abbey and University. It honors individuals who have distinguished themselves through a life's work that reflects the ideals of Benedictine monasticism.

2008:  Most Reverend Elias Chacour, Archbishop of Akka, Haifa, Nazareth and Galilee
2007:  His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia of the Armenian Apostolic Church
2006:  Most Reverend Harry J. Flynn
Abbot Primate Notker Wolf, OSB
2005:   Doctor Martin E. Marty
His Beatitude Ignatius IV Hazim
2004:   Reverend John Everett Davis
2003:   Doctor John R. Page
2002:   Most Reverend John Kinney
2001:   Mr. Douglas A. Johnson
2000:   Most Reverend Samuel Ruiz Garcia
1998:   Mr. Richard T. Proulx
1997:   Presiding Bishop Emeritus David W. Preus
Abbot Placid Reitmeier, O.S.B.
1996:   His Eminence Joseph Cardinal Bernardin
1995:   Ms. Mary Jo Copeland
1994:   Ms. Amy Grant
1993:   Reverend Baldwin Dworschak, O.S.B.
1992:   Abbot Primate Jerome Theisen, O.S.B.
1990:   Reverend Leonard Eugene Boyle, O.P.
Mr. Edward Simeon Skillin
Mr. Harry C. Piper, Jr.
1987:   Doctor Albert Cook Outler
1986:   Sister Emmanuel Renner, O.S.B.
1985:   Reverend Robert Sperry Bilheimer
1984:   Reverend Kilian McDonnell, O.S.B.
1983:   Most Reverend John R. Roach
1982:   Doctor Gordon Charles Zahn
1981:   Abbot Dom Basilio Penido, O.S.B.
1980:   Reverend John Eidenschink, O.S.B.
1978:   Most Reverend James Steven Rausch
1977:   Most Reverend Jean Jadot
1976:   Most Reverend David J. Du Plessis
1975:   Most Reverend Dr. Per Lonning
His Eminence Leo Josef Cardinal Suenens
1974:   Most Reverend Basil Christopher Butler
1973:   Reverend Colman J. Barry, O.S.B.
His Holiness Abuna Theophilos
1971:   Doctor Dana L. Farnsworth, M.D.
Right Reverend Monsignor George C. Higgins
1970:   Most Reverend Ernest L. Unterkoefler
Reverend Andrew J. Young
1969:   His Eminence George Bernard Cardinal Flahiff
Right Honorable Lord Caradon
1968:   Most Reverend Jans G.M. Willebrands
Reverend Eugene Carson Blake
1967:   Most Reverend John F. Dearden
Lady Barbara Ward Jackson
1966:   Most Reverend Paul J. Hallinan
Doctor Jaroslav J. Pelikan
1965:   Honorable George N. Shuster
Reverend John Courtney Murray, S.J.
1964:   Reverend Frederick R. McManus
Honorable Eugene J. McCarthy
1963:   Honorable Ignatius A. O’Shaughnessy
Most Reverend Peter W. Bartholome