The Revue de l’Orient Chrétien (ROC) was created in 1896 as an academic supplement to the “Bulletin de l’Œuvre d’Orient” with the aim of promoting unity between the different Christian denominations, by studying in a scientific way related questions in history, archaeology, ecclesiastical law and theology. It was intended as a place of dialog with Oriental Christians and a way to reveal their patrimony to them as well as to European scholars. It developed under the direction of Monseigneur René Graffin, who was also the founder and director of the Patrologia Orientalis. Twenty nine volumes and the first two issues of volume 30 were published between 1896 and 1936. The illness of Mgr Graffin and his death in 1941 aimed a deadly blow to his enterprise and only a last issue (tome 30, nos. 3 and 4) was eventually released in 1946.

The Revue covered all the languages of the Christian Orient, from Greek to Georgian and Ethiopian going through Armenian, Syriac, Coptic and Arabic. It was mainly dedicated to catalogues of manuscripts and text editions, most of which have not yet been superseded. It contains also many studies in hagiography, apocryphal literature, philology, patristic literature, religious poetry, Church history and theology. Each issue had a review of books. This new Gorgias edition gathers the entire collection of Revue de l’Orient Chrétien with introductory material by Françoise Briquel Chatonnet, and full indices by Jimmy Daccache.