Stanislao Loffreda

The Rev. Stanislao Loffreda, O.F.M.
Born	15 January 1932 Monteprandone, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Alma mater	University of Chicago Oriental Institute
Known for	Excavations at Capernaum, Machaerus, Herodium, Magdala and Tabgha
Scientific career
Fields	Archaeology, Ceramology and Biblical studies
Institutions	Studium Biblicum Franciscanum

Stanislao Loffreda, O.F.M., (born 15 January 1932) is an Italian Franciscan friar, archaeologist, Palestinian pottery expert and Bible scholar.

Father Loffreda belongs to the Italian Province of S. Giacomo nelle Marche. He was ordained as a priest in the Order of Friars Minor in 1956. He is licentiate in Holy Scripture and laureate in theology with biblical specialization, M. A. in archeology on the Oriental Institute of Chicago in 1967. He served as a professor of biblical archeology and topography of Jerusalem and the director of Studium Biblicum Franciscanum in Jerusalem (1978-1990). In years 1968-1991 he was a co-director of the excavations at Capernaum by the Sea of Galilee; 1978-1981 on the hilltop palace of Machaerus in Jordan.^[1]