The Order of Preachers,commonly known as the Dominican Order,is a Catholic mendicant order of pontifical right that was founded in France by a Castilian priest named Dominic de Guzmán. It was approved by Pope Honorius III via the papal bull Religiosam vitam on 22 December 1216. Members of the order,who are referred to as Dominicans,generally display the letters OP after their names,standing for Ordinis Praedicatorum,meaning 'of the Order of Preachers'. Membership in the order includes friars,nuns,active sisters,and lay or secular Dominicans. More recently,there have been a growing number of associates of the religious sisters who are unrelated to the tertiaries.
Providence College is a private Catholic university in Providence,Rhode Island,United States. Founded in 1917 by the Dominican Order and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence,it offers 47 undergraduate majors and 17 graduate programs.
Thomas Cajetan Kelly was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. A member of the Dominican Order,Kelley served as archbishop of the Archdiocese of Louisville in Kentucky from 1982 until his retirement in 2007. He previously served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Washington from 1977 to 1981.
John Timothy McNicholas,O.P. was an Irish-born prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. A Dominican priest,he served as bishop of the Diocese of Duluth in Minnesota from 1918 to 1925 and as archbishop of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati in Ohio from 1925 to 1950.
The Dominican Order has been present in Ireland since 1224 when the first foundation was established in Dublin,a monastic settlement north of the River Liffey,where the Four Courts is located today. This was quickly followed by Drogheda,Kilkenny (1225),Waterford (1226),Limerick (1227) and Cork (city) (1229). The order was reestablished in the 19th century after having been driven out in the 17th century by laws against Catholic religious orders. During the Penal Laws,as other Irish Colleges were established on the continent,in 1633 the Irish Dominicans established,the College of Corpo Santo,Lisbon and College of the Holy Cross,Louvain (1624-1797) to train clergy for ministering in Ireland. San Clemente al Laterano in Rome,was entrusted to the Irish Dominicans in 1677. In 1855,St. Mary's Priory,Tallaght,was established to train members of the order,who would complete their clerical studies in Rome and be ordained in the Basilica San Clemente.
The Dominican House of Studies is a Catholic institution in Washington,DC,housing both the Priory of the Immaculate Conception,a community of the Province of St. Joseph of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans),and the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception,an ecclesiastical faculty of theology.
John Christopher "Aidan" Nichols is an English academic and Catholic priest.
Carlos Alfonso Azpiroz Costa,O.P. is an Argentinian Catholic friar of the Order of Preachers who has served as the Archbishop of Bahia Blanca since 2015. He was previously his religious order's superior general from 2001 to 2010.
John C. Vidmar,O.P. is an associate professor of history at Providence College,Rhode Island where he also serves as provincial archivist and teaches history. Prior to his work at Providence,he served as associate professor,academic dean,acting president and prior teaching history for 15 years at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington D.C.
Joseph Augustine Di Noia is an American member of the Dominican Order who is a Roman Catholic archbishop and theologian. Since 2013 he has been Adjunct Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. He has held several other positions in the Roman Curia since 2002.
The Dominican Order was first established in the United States by Edward Fenwick in the early 19th century. The first Dominican institution in the United States was the Province of Saint Joseph,which was established in 1805. Additionally,there have been numerous institutes of Dominican Sisters and Nuns.
Rolando V. de la Rosa,O.P.,is the Provincial Archivist of the Dominican Province of the Philippines.
Herminio Dagohoy,O.P.,is the 96th Rector Magnificus of the University of Santo Tomas (UST),the oldest and the largest Catholic university in Manila,Philippines.
Nicanor Robles Austriaco,Jr. OP is a Filipino-American molecular biologist and Catholic priest. He is a professor of biology and professor of theology at Providence College,in Providence,Rhode Island,and a research fellow at the Center for Theology,Religious Studies,and Ethics,at the University of Santo Tomas in the Philippines.
Bede Jarrett OP was an English Dominican friar and Catholic priest who was also a noted historian and author. Known for works including Mediæval Socialism and The Emperor Charles IV,Jarrett also founded Blackfriars Priory at the University of Oxford in 1921,formally reinstating the Dominican Order at that university for the first time since the Dissolution of the Monasteries under King Henry VIII.
Benjamin Earl,O.P. is an English Catholic Priest,Dominican Friar,and Canon lawyer. He is the Procurator General of the Order of Preachers —the 800-year old mendicant order colloquially known as the Dominicans.
Conrado "Bobby" Gempesaw is an academic administrator who served as the 17th president of St. John's University in New York City. He is the first layperson to hold the position since the university's establishment in 1870,as all 16 prior presidents were Vincentian priests.
Thomas Joseph White,O.P.,is an American Catholic priest and theologian. On September 14,2021,he succeeded MichałPaluch,OP,as rector of the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Rome. He is a founding member of the bluegrass band the Hillbilly Thomists.
