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Simeon Leiva-Merikakis, OCSO (born 28 December 1946) is a Catholic theologian, translator, Trappistmonk^[1], and current Secretary for the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance.^[2]

Biography

Erasmo Spyros Leiva-Merikakis was born in Havana, Cuba on December 28, 1946. His father, a Cuban doctor, traveled to the US for his internship, where he met his mother, a daughter of Greek immigrants, a laboratory technician at the same hospital.

After they married, they returned to Cuba, where Erasmo and his siblings were born. When the Batista regime in Cuba was overthrown by Communists in 1959, his family moved to the United States.

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Leiva-Merikakis obtained his Ph.D. in comparative literature and theology from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He was a professor of literature and theology at the University of San Francisco^[3], where he was introduced to Fr. Joseph Fessio, S.J., founder of Ignatius Press, which would publish many of Leiva-Mer The Way of the Disciple by Erasmo Leiva-Merikakis - Formed WEVYC