His Excellency, The Most Reverend Edward K. Braxton, Ph.D., S.T.D., etc.
Bishop Emeritus, Diocese of Belleville, Illinois
The Most Reverend Edward K. Braxton, Bishop Emeritus of the Diocese of Belleville, Illinois, originally a priest of the Archdiocese of Chicago, earned his Ph.D. in Religious Studies and his S.T.D. in Systematic Theology summa cum laude from the Pontifical Faculty of the Catholic University of Louvain. He has served as the William A. Coolidge Professor of Ecumenical Relations at Harvard Divinity School and as a member of the Theology Faculty at the University of Notre Dame, the Catholic University of America, and the Pontifical North American College. He served as Chancellor for Theological Affairs to James Cardinal Hickey, the late Archbishop of Washington DC. He served as the Cardinal’s personal Theologian and Theological Resource Person for the Diocesan Curia. He is the author of The Wisdom Community, The Faith Community, The Church and the Racial Divide: Reflections of an African American Bishop, and numerous articles. His writings have appeared in the Harvard Theological Review, Theological Studies, Louvain Studies, The Tablet, America, Commonweal, The Irish Theological Studies, and other journals. The Bishop has served as Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of St. Louis, MO, Bishop of Lake Charles, LA, and Bishop of Belleville, Illinois. At the invitation of Peter Cardinal Turkson, then-Prefect of the Dicastery for The Promotion of Integral Human Development, the Bishop led a discussion at the Vatican on Populorum Progressio. He has served as Pastor in Residence and as the Catholic Chaplain at The Chautauqua Institution in New York. He lived and traveled extensively in South Africa while serving as the Lecturer for the South African Winter School of Theology. The Bishop has served on various committees of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. The Bishop has lectured nationally and internationally on a variety of theological and pastoral topics. He is considered a leading voice in the Church on the African American Catholic experience.
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His Excellency, The Most Reverend Edward K. Braxton, Ph.D., S.T.D., etc.
