Dr. Samuele Bacchiocchi

Because most of the research of the early-century, primary-source documents in this project is Dr. Bacchiocchi's, I would like to give him special thanks and tell you a little about him.

Dr. Bacchiocchi is the first non-Catholic to have graduated from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. There, in response to his Ph.D. dissertation, From Sabbath to Sunday, he received a gold medal from Pope Paul VI for academic distinction. He has also earned degrees in the USA and has served as a missionary in Ethiopia. He is author of numerous articles and twelve books, and has recently retired from his role as professor of church history and theology at Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Michigan.

The topic of Dr. Bacchiocchi's dissertation at the Pontifical Gregorian University was the history of Jewish Sabbath-keeping and its evolution into Christian Sunday-keeping. Much of the early-centuries historical material on this web site is taken by permission directly or indirectly from Dr. Bacchiocchi's dissertation, published by the Pontifical Gregorian University Press in 1977.

At the university in Rome, Dr. Bacchiocchi had hands-on access to rare and unpublished documents by obscure early-century authors, which shed light on his study. It was the possibility of access to such documentation that had originally attracted Dr. Bacchiocchi, a Protestant, to the Pontifical Gregorian University.

For many years since the publication of his dissertation, Dr. Bacchiocchi has conducted Lord's Day Seminars in many parts of the world, discussing and defending the seventh-day Sabbath of the Bible.

If you would like to contact Dr. Bacchiocchi for additional material, or if you have questions you would like him to answer, you can reach him by writing to:

Biblical Perspectives

4569 Lisa Lane

Berrien Springs, Michigan