Robert L. Stern
Robert L. Stern (born November 22, 1932 ) is a Roman Catholic clergyman from the United States .
Life
Robert L. Stern attended school in New York City and studied physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . After a pilgrimage to Rome in 1950 with an encounter with Pope Pius XII. he studied Catholic theology and philosophy . He was ordained a priest in 1958 by the Archbishop of New York, Cardinal Francis Spellman . Stern then worked in the Archdiocese of New York for over 25 years . He completed a doctoral degree in Canon Law at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome.
In 1987 he became general secretary of the Catholic Near East Welfare Association (CNEWA) , a welfare organization that supports people in the Middle East, Northeast Africa, India and Eastern Europe. He was also appointed President of the Pontifical Commission for Palestine , a 1949 by Pope Pius XII. organization founded in support of Palestine . From 1994 to 2007 he was a member of the International Board of Regents at the University of Bethlehem , in particular founding president of the Bethlehem University Foundation in 1998.
Honors
- Appointment as Apostolic Protonotary by Pope Benedict XVI.
- Appointment as Archimandrite by the Patriarch of Jerusalem of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church
- Grand Officer of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem
- Honorary Brother of the Brothers of Christian Schools (De la Salle Brothers)
- Honorary doctorate from the University of Bethlehem (2011)
swell
- National Catholic Directory , National Register Publishing 2005
- Encyclopedia of Associations: National organizations of the US (Volume 1), Gale / Cengage 2008
Individual evidence
- ↑ Honorary doctorate , accessed on August 26, 2013
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| SURNAME | Stern, Robert L. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American Roman Catholic clergyman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 22, 1932 |