The Development of the AIEP/IAPS

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My paper is intended as a continuation of that of Dr A. M. Ritter, which gave us the background of the foundation of AIEP/IAPS. The AIEP was founded in France, at Paris, in 1965; it was above all the work of French scholars, but it was later officially established at Oxford in 1967. Jacques Fontaine, who died recently, published the first Bulletin in 1968, which was the very model that continually expanded in the following editions, until the last years. After the year 1973 the Association was confronted with a profound crisis, and was threatened with disappearing altogether. As a matter of fact, the Bulletin was not published for six years, from 1974 until 1980. On the occasion of the Eighth International Conference on Patristic Studies in 1979, the Association was refounded with the approval of the revised Statutes; Claude Mondésert, secretary, restarted the Bulletin. In 1983 I inherited the office of Claude Mondésert; I prepared 17 Bulletins, from 1984 till 2000. The life of the association has continually improved up to the present day and membership is steadily increasing, from a wide variety of countries.