Louis Weil

Louis Weil (May 10, 1935 – March 9, 2022) was an American Episcopal priest, liturgical scholar, and seminary professor. He was a member of the committee that drafted and proposed the 1979 Book of Common Prayer of the Episcopal Church.

A graduate of Southern Methodist University (1956) and Harvard (MA 1958), he was ordained to the priesthood on January 1, 1962, for the Episcopal Diocese of California by the Right Reverend Joseph Harte of the Episcopal Diocese of Arizona following studies at the General Theological Seminary in New York. He completed doctoral studies on the history of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut at the Institut Catholique de Paris.

Weil taught at the former Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Caribbean from 1961 to 1971, Nashotah House Theological Seminary from 1971 to 1988, and the Church Divinity School of the Pacific from 1988 until his retirement in 2009. Weil also lectured at the School of Theology at The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee and the General Theological Seminary. He was a member of the Lutheran-Episcopal Dialogue from 1976 to 1980. Weil was a widely published author who was a member of the Latin American Theological Education Commission, Societas Liturgica, the North American Academy of Liturgy, and the Episcopal Church Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music (1985–1991). He died in Oakland, California, on March 9, 2022, at the age of 86.