Miroslav Konštanc Adam

Miroslav Konštanc Adam OP (born August 2, 1963 in Michalovce , Czechoslovakia ) is a Slovak theologian and legal scholar .

Life

Adam initially studied veterinary medicine and received his doctorate in 1987 from the Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice . While doing research, he joined the Dominican Order on February 26, 1989 . He made his profession on April 13, 1993 and was ordained a priest on June 24, 1995 . After completing a master's degree in theology in 1995 at the Palacký University in Olomouc , he received his doctorate in canon law in 2001 at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) in Rome . He was chaplain of the University of Economics in Bratislava and pastor in Bratislava . From 2001 to 2005 he was the first Dominican Provincial in Slovakia. From 2001 to 2010 he taught canon law at the University of Trnava and in 2004 at the Theological Institute Thomas Aquinas in Kiev .

On October 11, 2005, he was appointed professor of canon law at the Angelicum in Rome. In 2009 he became Dean of the Faculty of Canon Law and Vice Rector of the Angelicum. He also taught at the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome. On March 26, 2012, Adam was appointed rector of the Angelicum by the Grand Chancellor Bruno Cadoré, succeeding Charles Morerod OP, with the consent of the Congregation for Catholic Education .

From 2003 to 2005 he was external judge at the Diocesan Court of the Archdiocese of Košice and from 2006 external judge at the Interdiocesan Court of Lazio . In 2006/07 he took over a mandate at the diocesan court of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles . Since 2009 he has been Commissioner of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life in Rome.

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• Biography Miroslav Konštanc Adam (English)