Bede Griffiths

Dom Bede Griffiths OSB Cam
Born	Alan Richard Griffiths (1906-12-17)17 December 1906 Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England
Died	13 May 1993(1993-05-13) (aged 86) Shantivanam, Tamil Nadu, India
Nationality	English, Indian
Other names	Swami Dayananda
Alma mater	Magdalen College, Oxford
Occupation(s)	Camaldolese priest and monk, mystic, theologian

Bede Griffiths OSB Cam^[1] (17 December 1906 – 13 May 1993), born Alan Richard Griffiths and also known by the end of his life as Swami Dayananda ("bliss of compassion"), was a British-born Catholic priest and Benedictine monk who lived in ashrams in South India and became a noted missionary. Griffiths was a part of the Christian Ashram Movement.