Fr. Claudio Burgaleta, S.J., Ph.D.

Father Claudio M. Burgaleta, S.J., is Associate Professor of Theology at the Graduate School of Religion and Religious Education (GSRRE) of Fordham University. He is currently serving as academic mentor for several students on their thesis projects, including one entitled, “The Aesthetics of Pope Benedict XVI: Ever Ancient, Ever New.” In 1980 he entered the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) at St. Andrew Hall, Syracuse, N.Y., and was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1992. He obtained a Ph.D. in Historical and Systematic Theology from Boston College in 1996. Fr. Burgaleta is the award-winning author of several books, including an introduction to Christology in Spanish (Liguori, 2010) and Manual de eclesiología para los católicos de hoy (Liguori, 2012).