Richard R Gaillardetz
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1958 –
Who is Richard R Gaillardetz?
Richard Gaillardetz is an American theologian specializing in questions relating to Catholic ecclesiology and the structures of authority in the Roman Catholic Church. For his dissertation he researched ‘the Theology of the Ordinary Universal Magisterium of Bishops’. He is the author of seven books, the most recent of which is Ecclesiology for a Global Church.
Born in a Texas military family, he earned his BA in humanities in 1981 from the University of Texas and an M.A. in biblical theology at St. Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas in 1984. He also received an M.A. and a Ph.D. in systematic theology from the University of Notre Dame. From 1991 to 2001 he taught at the University of St. Thomas Graduate School of Theology in Houston, Texas. From 2001 to 2011 Gaillardetz held the Thomas and Margaret Murray and James J. Bacik Chair in Catholic Studies at the University of Toledo. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Catholic Theological Society of America and on the U.S. Roman Catholic-Methodist Ecumenical Dialogue. In 2011 Gaillardetz left the University of Toledo to accept the Joseph McCarthy Chair of Catholic Systematic Theology at Boston College.
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- Born
- 1958
United States of America - Also known as
- Richard Gaillardetz
- Richard Gaillardetz
- Education
- University of Notre Dame
- University of Texas at Austin
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on July 23, 2013
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