The
Rev. Albert ("Kim") R. Dreisbach, Jr., an Episcopal Priest, was the founder and
Executive Director of the Atlanta International Center for the Continuing Study
of the Shroud of Turin, Inc. (AICCSST). Selected for Marquis Who's Who in
Religion, Fr. Dreisbach was the author of numerous papers and lectured many
times, as at Turin, St. Stephen's House, Oxford, Bologna, Mount St. Alphonus in
Esopus, NY, Emory's Senior University, Atlanta. He has often appeared on
national radio and TV. He also served as a panelist with author Ian Wilson and
Duke's Dr. Alan Whanger on Vatican Radio following the Bologna International
Symposium in 1989. A commentator and technical advisor in a segment devoted to
the Shroud on CBS's Mysteries of the Ancient World, he also has functioned in
the same capacity for NBC's Unsolved Mysteries, CBN's Behold a Mystery, The
Learning Channel's "In Pursuit of the Shroud" and The History Channel's
"History's Mysteries." Fr. Dreisbach has traveled extensively in search of new
insights regarding the Holy Shroud. Called by one newspaper "'a' man of the
cloth who teaches about 'The' Man on the Cloth", Fr. Dreisbach saw the Holy
Shroud as an superb vehicle for:
From 1981 to 1987, he managed the TURIN SHROUD EXHIBIT - displayed first at the Peachtree Center and for six years at the Omni International. The site was visited by thousands of conventioneers, foreign guests - including a delegation of Russian Orthodox Archbishops, school children, church groups and a special party led by former President Jimmy Carter and Warren Christopher, who later served as Secretary of State.
From: Shroud of Turin Website