Serge de Beaurecueil
The Reverend Serge de Beaurecueil | |
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De Beaurecueil in 1965 | |
| Church | Catholic Church |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 19 March 1943 by Emmanuel Célestin Suhard |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Serge Emmanuel Marie de Laugier de Beaurecueil 28 August 1917 |
| Died | 2 March 2005 (aged 87) |
| Residence | Kabul, Afghanistan |
| Occupation | Orientalist, missionary |
| Alma mater | Le Saulchoir, University of Paris |
Serge Emmanuel Marie de Laugier de Beaurecueil OP (28 August 1917 – 2 March 2005) was a French Dominican friar, Islamicist, and missionary in Afghanistan. He was a founding member of the Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies and a scholar of Abdullah Ansari, an eleventh century Afghan Sufi saint. As a missionary in Afghanistan, he cared for poor children and orphans at his home in Kabul until being forced into exile during the Soviet–Afghan War.
From 1963 to 1983, he served as the only Catholic priest in Afghanistan.