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After being ordained a priest in 1930, he sailed for mainland China. Allegra organized a team of Chinese Franciscan friars to work with him on the translation of the Bible and inaugurated the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum in Beijing in 1945. But as the Chinese Civil War ended, Allegra and his team had to leave for Kowloon, Hong Kong in 1948.
After being ordained a priest in 1930, he sailed for mainland China. Allegra organized a team of Chinese Franciscan friars to work with him on the translation of the Bible and inaugurated the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum in Beijing in 1945. But as the Chinese Civil War ended, Allegra and his team had to leave for Kowloon, Hong Kong in 1948.


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Gabriele Allegra (San Giovanni la Punta, Catania, 1907 - British Hong Kong, 1976) -- Franciscan friar & Biblical Scholar

Allegra was a Franciscan Friar and Biblical scholar. He is best known for accomplishing in 1948-75 the first complete translation of the Catholic Bible into the Chinese language--often considered the definitive Chinese Bible among Catholics.

After being ordained a priest in 1930, he sailed for mainland China. Allegra organized a team of Chinese Franciscan friars to work with him on the translation of the Bible and inaugurated the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum in Beijing in 1945. But as the Chinese Civil War ended, Allegra and his team had to leave for Kowloon, Hong Kong in 1948.

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