André Scrima (1925-2000): Orthodox monk and intellectual; studied philosophy and theology in Bucharest; doctoral studies in Benares, India. Professor of religious sciences at the Catholic University of Saint-Joseph in Beirut, Lebanon (1968-1989), academic life in Paris, Beirut, Rome, Houston, in environments where he encountered Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism in a perspective of spiritual convergence. Senior fellow of New Europe College. Inspirer of the Orthodox monastery of St. Georges at Deir-el-Harf, Lebanon, Archimandrite of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, personal observer of Patriarch Athenagoras at the Second Vatican Council, he has advocated a Christian ecumenism rooted in the consciousness of the radiating unity of God. Founding member (and vice-president 1966-1968) of the Académie Internationale des Sciences Religieuses, Brussels.

The archive, part of the André Scrima Fund, comprises mainly the materials present in André Scrima’s home in Bucharest, where Father Scrima returned in 1993. It includes various texts, notes, lectures, articles, thematic files, bibliographical material, personal and academic documents, a rich correspondence, etc. When Father Scrima died in 2000, his family entrusted this repository to the New Europe College. Since then, the Archive has been enriched thanks to exchanges of documents with university, monastic and cultural organizations where André Scrima was active and also thanks to researchers and alumni of New Europe College. The archive contains material in French, Romanian, English, German, Arabic, Italian.

The archive covers various topics such as: hermeneutics of contemplative and liturgical Christianity, philosophy of religion, symbolism and religious art, analysis of the relationship between faith and history/ actuality, the critical function of faith, etc.