Volker Leppin

Volker Leppin (born 1966) is a German church historian. He is the Horace Tracy Pitkin Professor of Historical Theology at Yale University.

Leppin studied at the University of Marburg and Heidelberg University and taught at the University of Jena and the University of Tübingen.

As a member of the ''Ökumenischer Arbeitskreis'' (Ecumenical Study Group of Protestant and Catholic Theologians), Leppin has written in favor of Eucharistic meal fellowship between Catholics and Protestants. Provided by Wikipedia