Julián Carrón
| Julián Carrón | |
|---|---|
| Born | 25 February 1950 Navaconcejo |
| Church | Catholic Church |
| Ordained | 1975 |
| Writings | Disarming Beauty |
Julián Carrón (Navaconcejo, 25 February 1950) is a Spanish Catholic priest, and theologian. Since the death of its founder Luigi Giussani in 2005, he has guided the international Catholic movement of Communion and Liberation.
On 18 September 2012, Father Carrón was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI to serve as one of the papally-appointed, non-episcopal Synod Fathers for the October 2012 13th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on the New Evangelization.
Called by Father Giussani to share in the responsibility of the leadership of the Movement, Father Julián Carrón has been President of the Fraternity of CL since 19 March 2005, and Ecclesiastical Assistant to the Memores Domini since 13 May 2005. Julián Carrón was born in 1950 in Navaconcejo (Cáceres, Spain). While he was still very young, he entered Madrid’s Conciliar Seminary, where he completed his secondary and theological studies. He was ordained a priest in 1975, and the following year he obtained a degree in Theology, specializing in Sacred Scripture at the Comillas Pontifical University. He is lecturer at the Complutense University of Madrid. He was appointed Elève Titulaire at the École Biblique et Archéologique Française in Jerusalem, where he worked under the direction of M.-É. Boismard. He spent one year researching at the Catholic University of America (Washington, DC), and is professor at the Theological College of Madrid’s Conciliar Seminary.
He is head of the Minor Seminary, professor of Religion, and in charge of pastoral care at the Colegio Arzobispal de la Inmaculada y San Dámaso (Madrid), of which he was rector from 1987 to 1994. He obtained a doctorate in Theology from the Facultad de Teología del Norte de España, in Burgos, in 1984. He is lecturer at the San Dámaso Institute of Theology, Religious Science, and Catechetics and ordinary professor of New Testament at the San Dámaso Faculty of Theology in Madrid, where he has taught “Introduction to Sacred Scripture,” “The Pauline Corps and Acts of the Apostles,” and “Origins of Christianity.” He is also a member of the editorial committee of Studia Semitica Novi Testamenti. He is the Director of Madrid’s San Justino Institute of Classical and Eastern Philology. During the 1990s, he gave numerous lectures on the historicity of the Gospels in Madrid, Milan, Turin, Bologna, Rome, Florence, and Rimini, and lessons at New York University, the Catholic University of America, the John Paul II Institute, and the University of San Francisco, on the theme “In Search of Certainty about the Historic Value of the Gospels.” In addition to numerous articles in various journals, he published El Mesías manifestado. Tradición Literaria y transfondo judío de Hch 3, 19-26 (Studia Semitica Novi Testamenti 2, Madrid 1993).
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