Lucian Turcescu (born 1966) is a Romanian-born Canadian professor of theology at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Turcescu taught for six years at St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia, where he became an associate professor and chair of the Religious Studies Department.

[citation needed] Turcescu has done research, published, and taught in several areas, including religion and politics, early Christianity, and ecumenism.

[2] He is also a proponent of the idea that functional democracies do not necessarily require the separation between church and state.

He organized international colloquia on "Religion and Politics in Eastern Europe" (Iaşi, Romania, 2005) and on "The Reception and Interpretation of the Bible in Late Antiquity" (Concordia University, 2006).