Robert Dodaro

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Robert John Dodaro, OSA is an American academic. He is a specialist in the writings of St Augustine of Hippo.

He was born in Pittsburgh to Margaret and William Dodaro. [1] [2] [3]

As a high school seminarian, Dodaro attended St. Augustine Seminary High School, where he met and befriended fellow student Robert Francis Prevost, the future Pope Leo XIV. In the school, the two were known as "the two Bobs." [4]

Until 2016 he served as the President of the Patristic Institute Augustinianum in Rome, and until 2018 was on the faculty as a Professor of Theology. [5] He was also a Professor of Patristic theology at the Pontifical Lateran University.

He also serves as the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Augustinus-Lexikon , a Visitor of Ralston College, [6] and on the Editorial Advisory Council of Dionysius. [7] His Christ and the Just Society in the Thought of Augustine was published by Cambridge University Press in 2004, [8] and he was a Co-Editor of Augustine: Political Writings, a collection of letters and sermons by Augustine that deal with political matters, [9] and also of Augustine and His Critics, a collection of essays in honour of Gerald Bonner. [10]

Pope Francis named him a member of the Study Commission on the Women's Diaconate on 2 August 2016. [11]

References

  1. ↑ "Obituary for "Bill" CHAEFER, Dodaro". The Arizona Republic. 2005-08-29. p. 19. Retrieved 2025-07-23.
  2. ↑ "Obituary for Margaret Dodaro". The Arizona Republic. 2012-12-20. pp. B5. Retrieved 2025-07-23.
  3. ↑ romenomen (2016-01-26). "Augustinian Professor Robert Dodaro: St. Augustine is less appreciated in the East, but he is rightly on the top in the West". Romen omen. Retrieved 2025-07-23.
  4. ↑ Horowitz, Jason; Bosman, Julie; Dias, Elizabeth; Graham, Ruth; Romero, Simon; Taj, Mitra (May 17, 2025). "Long Drives and Short Homilies: How Father Bob Became Pope Leo" . The New York Times . Retrieved May 17, 2025.
  5. ↑ "Docenti" (in Italian). Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum . Retrieved 20 February 2017.
  6. ↑ "Robert Dodaro | Ralston College". www.ralston.ac.
  7. ↑ "Editorial Team | Dionysius". ojs.library.dal.ca.
  8. ↑ "Christ and the Just Society in the Thought of Augustine". Cambridge University Press.
  9. ↑ "Augustine: Political Writings". Cambridge University Press.
  10. ↑ "Augustine and his Critics". Routledge.
  11. ↑ Joshua J. McElwee (2 August 2016). "Francis institutes commission to study female deacons, appointing gender-balanced membership". National Catholic Reporter . Retrieved 4 August 2016.


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