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Rev. Anthony D. Andreassi, C.O., is the provost of the Brooklyn Oratory and the principal of Regis High School in New York City. He holds a doctorate in history from Georgetown University with a concentration on American Catholicism. He is the author of Teach Me to Be Generous: A History of Regis High School in New York City (2014).

Frederick D. Aquino is professor of theology and philosophy at Abilene Christian University's Graduate School of Theology. His publications address religious epistemology, spiritual perception, John Henry Newman, and Maximus the Confessor. He is currently working on a constructive account of spiritual perception and on the relevance of John Henry Newman for issues in contemporary epistemology.

Rev. Donald Bolen is the Catholic archbishop of Regina, Saskatchewan. From 2001 to 2008 he served under Cardinal Walter Kasper at the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity and continues to serve as a member of the council. He is the co-chair of the International Anglican-Roman Catholic Commission for Unity and Mission.

Dr. John Borelli, a historian of religions and theologian, is special assistant for Catholic identity and dialogue to President John J. DeGioia of Georgetown University. Borelli has been at Georgetown University since 2004, where he teaches, manages conferences and events, coordinates dialogues, facilitates workshops, and promotes university relations with offices and institutes of the Holy See.

Rev. Mark Bosco, S.J., is vice president for mission and ministry and a professorial lecturer in the Department of English at Georgetown University. Bosco previously taught in the theology and English departments at Loyola University Chicago and served as director of the Joan and Bill Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage. His scholarly work focuses on the intersection of theology and art.

Mark Chapman is professor of the history of modern theology at the University of Oxford and vice-principal of Ripon College, Cuddesdon, the largest seminary in the Church of England. He has written widely on all aspects of modern church history and theology. Among his many books are The Fantasy of Reunion: Anglicans, Catholics and Ecumenism, 1833-1882 (2014), Theology at War and Peace (2017) and Anglican Theology (2012). He is an Anglican priest and a member of the Church of England’s General Synod, as well as vice-chair of the Ecclesiological Investigations International Research Network.

Catherine E. Clifford is professor of systematic and historical theology and founding director of the Center for Research on Vatican II and 21st Century Catholicism at Saint Paul University, Ottawa. She presently serves as a member of the Methodist-Roman Catholic International Commission and is preparing a monograph entitled Communities of Grace: A Theology for the Mutual Recognition of the Churches.

John J. DeGioia is the forty-eighth president of Georgetown University. For nearly four decades, DeGioia has worked to define and strengthen Georgetown University as a premier institution for education and research. As the first lay president of a Jesuit university he places emphasis on sustaining and strengthening Georgetown’s Catholic and Jesuit identity and its responsibility to serve as a voice and an instrument for justice. He has also been an advocate for interreligious dialogue. He continues to teach an Ignatius Seminar each fall, part of a program offering first year students the opportunity to encounter unique courses of study inspired by the Jesuit educational theme of cura personalis (“care for the whole person”). He is a member of the Order of Malta, a lay religious order of the Roman Catholic Church dedicated to serving the sick and the poor. Before becoming president, DeGioia served at Georgetown as senior vice president, responsible for university-wide operations, and dean of student affairs. DeGioia earned his B.A. and Ph.D at Georgetown University.