Seminary and Graduate School of Theology - Mundelein Seminary

Faculty
*REV. PETER DAMIAN AKPUNONU, S.S.L., S.T.D., Professor in the
Department of Biblical Exegesis and Proclamation
S.S.L., Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome; S.T.D., Pontifical Urban
University, Rome. Former Associate Pastor 1966-67; taught at Bigard
Memorial Seminary Enugu, Nigeria 1971-1978; and Rector of the
same 1979-1989; President of Catholic Institute of West Africa, Port
Harcourt, Nigeria 1989-1997. Author of: The Vine, Israel and the
Church and The Overture of the Book of Consolations (Isa 40: 1-11).
Contributor to Bigard Studies and CIWA Studies. Member of the International
Theological Commission, Vatican City. Member of Catholic
Biblical Association of America, Conference of Catholic Theological
Institutions, Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians.
*VERY REV. THOMAS A. BAIMA, M.B.A., S.T.D., Vice Rector for
Academic Affairs, Dean of the Seminary and Graduate School, Professor
in the Department of Systematic Theology.
B.A., Butler University; S.T.B., M.Div., S.T.L., University of St. Mary of
the Lake; M.B.A., Templeton Institute; S.T.D., Pontifical University of
Saint Thomas Aquinas in Rome. Vicar for Ecumenical and Interreligious
Affairs of the Archdiocese of Chicago. Former Associate Pastor
of Our Lady of the Wayside Parish in Arlington Heights and Saint
Damian Parish in Oak Forest; Former President, Illinois Conference
of Churches, Council of Religious Leaders of Metropolitan Chicago
and O’Hare Interfaith Chapel Corporation. Trustee Emeritus, Council
for a Parliament of the World’s Religions. Author of Concordat of
Agreement Between the Episcopal Church and the Evangelical Lutheran
Church in America: Lessons on the Way Toward Full Communion.
Co-author of Understanding Four Views of The Lord’s Supper.
Editor of A Legacy of Catholic/Jewish Dialogue: The Joseph
Cardinal Bernardin Jerusalem Lectures, and What is a Parish? Canonical,
Theological and Pastoral Perspectives. Contributor to A
Sourcebook of the World Religions; A Blessing to Each Other: the
Writings of Joseph Cardinal Bernardin on Catholic/Jewish Relations;
The Community of Religions: Voices and Images from the 1993 Parliament
of the World’s Religions. Member of the American Academy
of Religion, American Catholic Philosophical Association, Catholic
Association of Diocesan Ecumenical Officers and North American
Academy of Ecumenists. Fellow, Christian Leadership Initiative, Shalom
Hartman Institute, Jerusalem.
REV. MARTIN BARNUM, D.MIN., Director of Pastoral Internship
Program, Director of International Students, Associate Dean of Formation,
Assistant Professor in the Department of Pastoral Theology
M.Div., University of St. Mary of the Lake; M.A. in Religious Education,
Mundelein College; D.Min., Catholic Theological Union at Chicago.
Served as associate pastor at Sacred Heart Parish in Winnetka
(1974-1979); St Isaac Jogues Parish in Niles (1986-1989). Pastor at
Our Lady of the Wayside Parish in Arlington Heights from 1989-1994.
From 1979-1986 on the faculty of Quigley Seminary North with residence
at St. Aloysius Parish in Chicago. Served as an Associate
Professor of Spirituality and as Director of Spiritual Formation. Sacred
Heart School of Theology in Hales Corners, Wisconsin. 1994-2005
Currently weekend sacramental minister at Transfiguration Parish in
Wauconda.
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