Berkley Center

Emilio Alvarez is the presiding bishop of the Union of Charismatic Orthodox Churches, a communion that lives at the intersection of sacramental, charismatic, and evangelical life, and embraces the One Holy Catholic Apostolic tradition. He holds a PhD from Fordham University School of Religious Education, and is currently a PhD student at Aberdeen University.

Elizabeth (Liza) Anderson is an assistant professor of theology and religious studies at the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, Minnesota. Her research focuses primarily on the languages, literatures, and histories of Middle Eastern Christianity and on Muslim-Christian dialogue. She is the president of the North American Academy of Ecumenists.

Fred Anderson is the retired senior pastor of Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City, and current chair of the board of the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton, New Jersey. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he is working with pastors and worship committees to celebrate the sacraments, especially Eucharist, via the internet on Sunday mornings.

​Dr. Cristina Lledo Gomez is Senior Lecturer at BBI-The Australian Institute of Theological Education and Research Fellow at the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture. She has various publications including in Ecclesiology, Vatican II, Feminist theologies, Post-Colonialism, and Sexual Abuse. She is author of The Church as Woman and Mother (2018) and co-editor of 500 Years of Christianity and the Global Filipino/a (2024).

Aaron Hollander is associate director of Graymoor Ecumenical & Interreligious Institute, associate editor of Ecumenical Trends, affiliated faculty at the Centro Pro Unione in Rome, and vice president of the North American Academy of Ecumenists. His research concerns the dynamics of ecumenical and interreligious conflict and coexistence, the aesthetic texture and political power of holiness, and the contemporary conditions of sectarianism.

Constantine Lazarakis is a priest at Kimisis Tis Theotokou Church and the Dormition of the Virgin Mary Greek Orthodox Church in Southampton, New York. Fr. Lazarakishas has served in a variety of capacities in the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America.

Peter C. Phan is the inaugural holder of the Ignacio Ellacuria Chair of Catholic Social Thought in the Georgetown University Department of Theology and Religious Studies and a faculty fellow at the Berkley Center. His research deals with the theology of icons in Orthodox theology, patristic theology, eschatology, the history of Christian missions in Asia, and liberation, inculturation, and interreligious dialogue. He is the author and editor of over 30 books and has published over 300 essays. His writings have been translated into Arabic, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Spanish, Chinese, Indonesian, Japanese, and Vietnamese, and have received many awards from learned societies. He is the first non-Anglo to be elected president of the Catholic Theological Society of America and president of the American Theological Society. In 2010 he received the John Courtney Murray Award, the highest honor bestowed by the Catholic Theological Society of America for outstanding achievement in theology. Phan has earned three doctorates.

Jason Welle, OFM, is director of studies and extraordinary professor at the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies in Rome. Welle is the co-editor of several recent volumes including the two-volume collection of papers from the Georgetown University conference Vatican II: Remembering the Future – Ecumenical, Interfaith and Secular Explorations of the Council’s Legacy and Promise (2018).