Priest (1979) of the Prelature of Opus Dei

Born in Frontino (Colombia) February 17, 1950. Italian Citizen

STUDIES:

High School, Instituto del Carmen, Bogotá, 1966

MS Chemical Engineering, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotà, 1973

Theology, Colegio Romano della santa Croce, 1977-1979

SThD Biblical Theology, Universidad de Navarra, 1981

PhD Biblical Philology, Universidad Pontificia di Salamanca, 1993

WORKING AND TEACHING

General Secretary, Centro Accademico Romano della Santa Croce, 1984-1985

Director of Research, School of Theology, PUSC, 1991-1995

Director of Studies, School of Theology, PUSC, 1995-1998

Academic Vicerector, Pontificia Università della Santa Croce, 2004-2008

Ordinary Professor of New Testament, Pontificia Università della Santa Croce, from 2003

Visiting Professor, Universidad de la Sabana, Bogotá, dal 1993

Visiting Professor, Pontificio Istituto "Regina Mundi", Roma, 1997-2002

Visiting Professor, Studium Biblicium Franciscanum, Jerusalem, 2005

Visiting Scholar, Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, 2011-2012

Visiting Professor, Studium Biblicum Franciscanum, Jerusalem, 2017

LANGUAGES

Classical and Biblical:

Latin, Greek & Hebrew (reading and writing)

Modern Languages:

Reading, writing and speaking Spanish, Italian, French, English (Proficiency, Centro Colombo-Americano, Bogotá), German (Zentrale mittelstufliche Prüfung, Goethe Institut, Roma), Hebrew (Levels "Ghimel" & "Daleth", Hebrew University of Jerusalem); Modern Greek, (Level "Beta 2", University of Tessaloniki); Portuguese (reading).

BIBLICAL ASSOCIATIONS

Associazione Biblica Italiana, from 1986.

Society of Biblical Literature, from 1988.

Catholic Biblical Association of America, from 1989.

Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas, from 1995.