Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
McGann, Robert, Dom, O.C.S.O.
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
- Dom Robert McGann
- Abbot Robert McGann
- Dom M. Robert McGann
- McGann, M. Robert, Dom
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
History
Dom Robert McGann was abbot of the Trappist monastery of Our Lady of the Holy Ghost (Holy Ghost Abbey) in Conyers, Georgia. He became abbot after Dom James Fox left in 1948 to become abbot of Gethsemani Abbey. He asks Merton some questions about the scholasticate.