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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.

Brian Flanagan is a senior fellow at New Ways Ministry and a research fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. He was previously an associate professor of theology and religious studies at Marymount University. Flanagan's research focuses on ecclesiology and ecumenism. He holds a Ph.D. and M.A. from Boston College, as well as a bachelor’s degree from the Catholic University of America.

​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).

Dale T. Irvin is a founding faculty member of the New School of Biblical Theology, and an adjunct in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Georgetown University. He is also currently the chair of Ecclesiological Investigations International Research Network. He is the author, co-author, and editor of several books, numerous chapters and journal articles, including History of the World Christian Movement (2001). He is a founding editor of the Journal of World Christianity.

Vladimir Latinovic is a lecturer in patristics at Tübingen University, where he previously was a research fellow at the Institute for Ecumenical and Interreligious Studies. He is also project manager of "Treasure of the Orient,” a project which seeks to improve integration and visibility of Near Eastern and Orthodox Christians in Germany. As an undergraduate he studied Orthodox Christian theology at the University of Belgrade and did his doctorate with the Catholic Theological Faculty at Tübingen University on homoousian Christology and its repercussions for the reception of the Eucharist (2018). He is vice-chair of the Ecclesiological Investigations International Research Network.

Leo D. Lefebure is the Matteo Ricci, S.J., Professor of Theology at Georgetown University and a Berkley Center faculty fellow. He is also a former Long Room Hub Fellow of Trinity College Dublin and a priest of the Archdiocese of Chicago. His books include, among others, Transforming Interreligious Relations: Catholic Responses to Religious Pluralism in the United States (2020); Religion, Authority, and the State: From Constantine to the Contemporary World (2016, editor); True and Holy: Christian Scripture and Other Religions (2014); The Path of Wisdom: A Christian Commentary on the Dhammapada (2011, with Peter Feldmeier); Revelation, the Religions, and Violence (2000); and The Buddha and the Christ (1993). Lefebure is  a research fellow at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, a trustee emeritus of the Parliament of the World’s Religions, and a former president of the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies. He has previously taught classes supported through the Berkley Center's Doyle Seminars project. He obtained his STL from St. Mary of the Lake Seminary and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago Divinity School.

Dr. Patricia (Trish) Madigan is a Dominican Sister who is a leader in ecumenical and interfaith relations in the Catholic Church in Australia. Her publications include Women and Fundamentalism in Islam and Catholicism: Negotiating Modernity in a Globalized World (2011) and Iraqi Women of Three Generations: Challenges, Education and Hopes for Peace (2013). She has contributed to many conferences and projects of the Ecclesiological Investigations International Research Network.

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.