Presenters

Fr. Joseph A. Komonchak

Fr. Joseph A. Komonchak is a priest of the Archdiocese of New York and now holds the John and Gertrude Hubbard Chair in Religious Studies at The Catholic University of America. Ordained in 1963, he received his Licentiate in Sacred Theology at the Gregorian University, Rome, in 1964 and his Doctorate in Philosophy at Union Theological Seminary, New York, in 1976. He taught theology at St. Joseph’s Seminary, Dunwoodie, from 1967 to 1977, when he joined the faculty of the Department of Religion and Religious Education at The Catholic University of America, where he teaches courses on ecclesiology, modern theology, the thought of John Courtney Murray, and the history and theology of Vatican II.

He has published many articles on these subjects. He was the chief editor of The New Dictionary of Theology and is the editor of the English-language edition of the History of Vatican II, four of the five volumes of which have appeared. A collection of his essays was published as Foundations in Ecclesiology.

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