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Michel Marcil
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Rev. Michel Marcil, S.J., was executive director of the U.S. Catholic China Bureau (USCCB) until October 2014 and previously was a research fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University. A native of Montréal, Québec, and an expert on Chinese religious questions, Fr. Marcil has served as founding director of Amitié-Chine, co-founder of the Canadian Catholic Roundtable on China, and co-chair of the ecumenical Canada-China Program. Before becoming executive director of USCCB in 2007, he also served as director of the California-based Inter-Friendship House Association for visiting Chinese scholars and as research fellow and program coordinator at the University of San Francisco Ricci Institute. Fr. Marcil has visited China regularly since 1983 and taught at the Sheshan Seminary near Shanghai. He holds an M.A. in Philosophy, an M.A. in Pastoral Philosophy from Université de Montréal, and a B.A. in Chinese Language from Fu-jen University in Taiwan.
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