Stephan Wiest (7 March 1748, Teisbach - 10 April 1797, Aldersbach) was a Catholic priest, Cistercian, and professor.
He was born on 7 March 1748 at Teisbach in Lower Bavaria. He attended the Cistercian monastery of Aldersbach in 1767 to study philosophy and theology. He took the vows on 28 October 1768, and was later ordained priest in 1772. He then studied further at the University of Ingolstadt. From 1774 to 1780 he taught philosophy and mathematics at Aldersbach, and then theology from 1780 to 1781. In 1781 he was made professor of dogmatic theology at the University of Ingolstadt, where he also taught patristics and the history of theological literature. He was then made rector of the university from 1787 to 1788, and then resigned his professorship in 1794, returning to the monastery of Aldersbach.
Heythrop College, University of London, was a constituent college of the University of London between 1971 and 2018, last located in Kensington Square, London. It comprised the university's specialist faculties of [philosophy]] and theology with social sciences, offering undergraduate and postgraduate degree courses and five specialist institutes and centres to promote research. It had a close affiliation with the Roman Catholic Church, through the British Province of the Society of Jesus whose scholarly tradition went back to a 1614 exiled foundation in Belgium and whose extensive library collections it housed. While maintaining its denominational links and ethos the college welcomed all faiths and perspectives, women as well as men.
Franz von Paula Schrank was a German priest, botanist and entomologist.
Francesco Antonio Zaccaria was an Italian theologian, historian, and prolific writer.
The Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (KU) is a Roman Catholic research university in Eichstätt and Ingolstadt, Bavaria, Germany.
Gregory of Valencia was a Spanish humanist and scholar who was a professor at the University of Ingolstadt.
Aldersbach Abbey is a former Cistercian monastery in the community of Aldersbach in the district of Passau in the valley of the Vils, Lower Bavaria, Germany.
Johann Michael Sailer was a German Jesuit theologian and philosopher, and Bishop of Regensburg. Sailer was a major contributor to the Catholic Enlightenment.
Herman Scholliner was a German Benedictine theologian and historian.
Dominic Schram, sometimes spelled Schramm was a German Benedictine theologian and canonist.
Jean-Baptiste Bouvier was a French theologian and Bishop of Le Mans.
James Robert Talbot (1726–1790) was the last English Roman Catholic priest to be indicted in the public courts for saying Mass.
Benedict Stattler was a German Jesuit theologian, and an opponent of Immanuel Kant. He was a member of the German Catholic Enlightenment.
The University of Dillingen, at Dillingen an der Donau in southern Germany, existed from 1551 to 1803. It was located in Swabia, then a district of Bavaria.
Marian Dobmayer was a German Benedictine theologian.
Maurus von Schenkl was a German Benedictine theologian and canonist.
Francis Mezger was an Austrian Benedictine academic and writer, of St. Peter's Archabbey, Salzburg.
Orani João Tempesta, O.Cist., is a Brazilian prelate of the Catholic Church who has been archbishop of Rio de Janeiro since 2009. He was previously bishop of São José do Rio Preto from 1997 to 2004 and archbishop of Belém do Pará from 2004 to 2009.
Bernard Michael O'Brien was a New Zealand Jesuit priest, philosopher, musician (cellist), writer and seminary professor.
The Pope Benedict XVI Philosophical-Theological University, colloquially referred to as Hochschule Heiligenkreuz, is a private, Roman Catholic pontifical university located in Heiligenkreuz, Austria. Founded in 1802 by the Cistercian monks of Heiligenkreuz Abbey as a seminary, for much of the 19th century, the college remained very small, with less than 20 seminarians and several Cistercian instructors. During the late 19th century and 20th-century, the college's profile grew, and more students arrived, made up of Cistercians, as well as diocesan and religious seminarians. In 1978, it earned university status, and Pope Benedict XVI named it a pontifical university upon his visit in 2007.
Domenico Angeloni was an Italian priest, theologist, and mathematician.