Pilgrims of Hope: Celebrating the 60th anniversary of Dei Verbum in North America

Dr. Felipe de J. Legarreta earnt his BA in Theology at the Pontifical University of Mexico, Summa Cum Laude, and then studied Biblical Hebrew and Greek at the Pontifical Biblical Institute. He received his doctorate on New Testament and Early Christianity from Loyola University Chicago, defending his dissertation with distinction on “The Figure of Adam in Romans and 1 Corinthians. The New Creation and its Ethical and Social Reconfiguration,” published by Fortress in 2014. His specialty is Paul’s letters and has taught Theology for more than 30 years in a wide range of topics from Bible, Systematic Theology, and Jesuit Higher Education, with an emphasis on the ethical and social implications of the Scripture and Theology. He teaches courses on the Old and New Testaments, Christology, Ecclesiology, Christian Doctrine, Paul’s Letters, and Jesuit Traditions, on both face to face and online formats, in English and Spanish.

Fr. Jan J. Stefanów, svd is CBF General Secretary since January 2014. He did his licentiate in Biblical Theology in the Gregorian University with a thesis on the theology of creation in Ben Sirach 16:24-17:14 (1998). Fr. Stefanów was director of the SVD biblical center in Quito and professor of Biblical Studies in the Quito section of the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas of Colombia from 2000 to 2003. From 2003 on, he was the Biblical coordinator of the SVD Polish Province; from 2006 to 2010, he was professor of Biblical Studies and Missiology in the Seminary in Bydgoszcz (Poland) and from 2006 to 2013 professor in the Seminary in Pieniężno. Fr. Stefanów has served as SVD Biblical Area Zonal Coordinator for Europe from 2009 to 2013. He has been active in the CBF since 2000. He participated in the CBF Plenary Assemblies in Lebanon (2002), in Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) (2008) and in Ariccia (2011), as well as in the Dei Verbum Congress in Rome in 2005. He has been a member of the CBF Administrative Board and one of the Board members of the Dei Verbum Foundation from 2012 to 2013.

Dr. Ahida Calderón Pilarski is Professor of Old Testament/Hebrew Bible at Saint Anselm College (NH). Her research focuses on the intersection of culture and gender in biblical interpretation, especially in Latina and Mujerista Biblical Hermeneutics. Her scholarly service to empower Latine (and Latina) communities includes, among others, being a member of the Editorial Board of the Wisdom Commentary Series (WCS), a member of the Steering Committee of HTI (Hispanic Theological Initiative), a member of the Committee for Underrepresented Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession at SBL (Society of Biblical Literature), a member of the Advisory Committee of Raíces Latinas at Boston University School of Theology, and the honor of having taught so far three courses at the HSP (Hispanic Summer Program). In June of 2022, she was elected Vice President of ACHTUS (Academy of Catholic Hispanic Theologians of the United States).