The Order of Preachers,also 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 has 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. Founded in 1917 by the Dominican Order and the local diocese,it offers 47 undergraduate majors and 17 graduate programs. The college requires all of its undergraduate students to complete 16 credits in the Development of Western Civilization,a major part of the college's core curriculum. In the spring of 2021,it enrolled 4,128 undergraduate students and 688 graduate students for a total enrollment of 4,816 students.
A pontifical university is an ecclesiastical university established or approved directly by the Holy See,composed of three main ecclesiastical faculties and at least one other faculty. These academic institutes deal specifically with Christian revelation and related disciplines,and the Church's mission of spreading the Gospel,as proclaimed in the apostolic constitution Sapientiachristiana. As of 2018,they are governed by the apostolic constitution Veritatis gaudium issued by Pope Francis on 8 December 2017.
The Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (PUST),also known as the Angelicum in honor of its patron the Doctor Angelicus Thomas Aquinas,is a pontifical university located in the historic center of Rome,Italy. The Angelicum is administered by the Dominican Order and is the order's central locus of Thomist theology and philosophy.
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.
The Master of Sacred Theology is a graduate-level,North American,academic degree in theology equivalent to ThM requiring two semesters of full time study. The Roman Catholic degree of Licentiate in Sacred Theology (STL) typically requires four semesters. An honorary title of STM is also awarded within the Dominican Order.
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.
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.
JoséSerofia Palma O.P. is a Filipino prelate and a professed member of the Dominican Order who is currently serving as the Archbishop of Cebu since 15 October 2010. He had previously served as Archbishop of Palo in Leyte. He also served as president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines from 2011 to 2013.
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.
David Michael O'Connell is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church,serving as the bishop of the Diocese of Trenton in New Jersey since 2010. He is a member of the Congregation of the Mission and a past president of the Catholic University of America (CUA).
Michael J. Sheeran,S.J.,is a Jesuit priest,former president of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities (AJCU),former president of Regis University in Denver,Colorado,and author of the book Beyond Majority Rule:Voteless Decisions in the Society of Friends.
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.
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.
Thomas Aykara CMI is the rector of Dharmaram College in Bengaluru,India. He is a Catholic priest of the Syro-Malabar Church. He joined the Carmelites of Mary Immaculate (CMI)Carmelites of Mary Immaculate congregation,St. Joseph's Province Kottayam in 1954. He is a philosopher,theologian and religious. He is a scholar,teacher,author and thinker. Several academic centres in India and abroad originated through the efforts of Thomas Aykara.
Thomas Joseph White,O.P.,is an American Roman Catholic priest and theologian. On September 14,2021,he succeeded MichałPaluch,OP,as rector of the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Rome.
