Patrick Madrid

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Patrick Thaddeus Madrid
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Born (1960-11-08) November 8, 1960 (age 63)
Los Angeles, California, United States
Alma materUniversity of Phoenix (B.S., Business Management)
Pontifical College Josephinum (B.Phil; M.A., Dogmatic Theology)
Occupation(s)Author, radio host, public speaker, and apologist
Years active1987–present
Organizations
Spouse
Nancy Madrid
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(m. 1981)​
Children11
Website patrickmadrid.com

Patrick Madrid (born November 8, 1960) is an American Catholic, author, and radio host. His many books include Why Be Catholic? (Penguin Random House), Life Lessons: 50 Things I Learned in My First 50 Years (Ignatius Press), and How to Do Apologetics (Our Sunday Visitor). His books have sold over one million copies, including foreign-language editions.

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He hosts the “Patrick Madrid Show” radio program on Relevant Radio, three hours daily. [1]

Aside from his radio presence, Madrid is best known for his work in Catholic apologetics. He worked for eight years (1988 to 1996) at Catholic Answers, serving as vice president. He has published numerous articles on Scripture, Church history, patristics, apologetics, and evangelization in various Catholic and Protestant periodicals and has contributed scholarly articles on apologetics in the New Catholic Encyclopedia . [2] [ self-published source? ]

He and his wife, Nancy, have 11 children and 28 grandchildren.

Early life

Patrick Madrid was born on November 8, 1960, in Lynwood, California, a near suburb of Los Angeles. His father, Bernard Madrid served for four years in the U.S. Coast Guard as a sailor, after which he had a long career as an electronics engineer. His mother, Gretchen, was a housewife. Madrid is the oldest of their eight children, one of whom died shortly after birth of pulmonary complications. Growing up in Southern California, Madrid was baptized at Saint Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church in Whittier and was raised primarily in Orange County, attending the Mission San Juan Capistrano Grammar School for several years.

Biography

Patrick Madrid has been a Catholic apologist since 1987. He hosts The Patrick Madrid Show on Relevant Radio weekdays 9-noon ET, discussing current events, modern culture, apologetics, and a variety of "God topics." Madrid does not have guests or conduct interviews on his show, but instead, engages listeners with personal commentary and interacts extensively with callers. [3] He has conducted thousands of apologetics seminars in English and Spanish at parishes, conferences, and universities across the United States, as well as throughout Europe, Canada, in Latin America, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and Israel. Since 1990, he has been a regular presenter at the Franciscan University of Steubenville's "Defending the Faith" summer apologetics conferences [4] and has been a guest lecturer in theology at Christendom College in their "Major Speakers" program. Madrid has engaged in at least a dozen formal public debates with Protestant, Mormon, and other non-Catholic spokesmen.

He founded what is now known as the Envoy institute in 1996 with the launch of Envoy Magazine, which reached a peak circulation of approximately 12,000 paid subscribers. The magazine was discontinued in 2011 when it lost its institutional funding source. [5] [ self-published source? ]

Madrid earned a bachelor of science degree in business management from the University of Phoenix as well as a B.Phil in philosophy and an M.A. in dogmatic theology (cum laude) from the Pontifical College Josephinum in Columbus, Ohio. He did graduate studies in theology at the University of Dallas. He has taught undergraduate courses on apologetics and the sacraments as an adjunct professor on the theology faculty at Franciscan University of Steubenville. He currently serves as an adjunct professor of apologetics at Holy Apostles College and Seminary and at Saint Patrick's Seminary and University in Menlo Park, California. [6]

A life-long avid fan of the Beatles, after playing trumpet in grammar school since the fourth grade, Madrid switched to the bass guitar at the age of 14, playing in various area garage bands, and eventually played bass for several years in Geneva Brown, an obscure Southern California rock band. He sometimes refers humorously on his radio show to his garage-band days by commenting on a particular word or phrase drawn news sources that he says would make for a "good garage band name." [7] [ self-published source? ]

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References

  1. ↑ "Catholic radio expands in L.A. with 93 KHJ". The Los Angeles Times . 2014-11-24. Retrieved 2020-01-02.
  2. ↑ "Articles". patrickmadrid.com. Retrieved November 12, 2020.
  3. ↑ "The Patrick Madrid show on Relevant Radio". Relevant Radio . September 20, 2017.
  4. ↑ "Defending the Faith | Steubenville Conferences". July 30, 2018.
  5. ↑ Murdaugh, Bryan. "Patrick Madrid – Envoy Institute". New Evangelizers. Retrieved December 3, 2020.
  6. ↑ University, St Patrick's Seminary & (January 4, 2021). "St. Patrick's Seminary". St. Patrick's Seminary & University.
  7. ↑ "Garage Bands". patrickmadrid.com. 22 February 2016. Retrieved November 11, 2020.

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