Father Mark Lewis named rector of Pontifical Gregorian Unive

Father Mark Lewis, S.J. / Daniel Ibáñez/CNARome Newsroom, Jun 14, 2022 / 10:45 am (CNA).Pope Francis has appointed Father Mark Lewis, a Florida-born Jesuit priest, to lead Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University as rector, it was announced on Tuesday.Lewis, 62, has served as academic vice rector of the Gregorian, a Jesuit-run ecclesiastical university, since 2019. His term as rector will begin on Sept. 1.He joined the university's faculty as a Church History and Cultural Heritage professor in 2017, after six years as provincial superior of the New Orleans Province of the Society of Jesus. He also taught at Spring Hill College in Alabama.Lewis' appointment follows that of another American, Father Thomas Joseph White, to lead the Pontifical University of Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) in 2021.Lewis lived in Rome from 1996 to 2004, working at the Historical Institute of the Society of Jesus, which he directed for six years.He has a doctoral degree in history from the University of Toro...

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