Franco Imoda

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The Reverend Dr.
Franco Imoda
SJ
Rector of the
Pontifical Gregorian University
In office
1998–2004
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Born02/14/1937?
Turin

Franco Imoda, S.J. is an Italian Jesuit priest, who served as Rector of the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome from 1998 to 2004.

Imoda was born in Turin. [1] Before his appointment as the rector of the Pontifical Gregorian University, he had been a professor in the Institute of Psychology of that university since 1971. [1] He studied philosophy at Vals-près-le-Puy in France, and theology at Chieri, near Turin. [1] Imoda obtained a doctorate in clinical psychology at the University of Chicago, and finished his training at the Illinois State Psychiatric Institute and the Psychosomatic and Psychiatric Institute of the Michael Reese Hospital at Chicago. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Rulla, Luigi M.; Joyce Ridick; Franco Imoda (1989). Anthropology of the Christian Vocation: Existential confirmation. Editrice Pontificia Università Gregoriana. p. 502. ISBN   9788876525988.

Human Development Psychology and Mystery, l Leuven, Peeters 1998

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Rector of the Pontifical Gregorian University
1998–2004
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