Robert W. Oliver

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Robert W. Oliver BH (* 1960 in New York City ) is an American Roman Catholic clergyman and canon lawyer .

Oliver studied history at Dartmouth College in Hanover NH from 1978 to 1982 . Since 1984 he has been a member of the Brotherhood of Hope , a Catholic community of priests and lay people, and has taught at mission schools in Boston and Florida. From 1989 to 1997 he studied Catholic theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and was awarded a doctorate theologiae for a dogmatic thesis . From 1995 to 1997 he completed a degree in canon law and was enrolled at the Catholic University of America in Washington DC in 2002 . the doctor of law doctorate. On May 27, 2000 he received through Bernard Francis Cardinal Law , Archbishop of Boston .

From 1997 to 2010 he was Professor of Canon Law and Systematic Theology at St. John's Seminary in the Archdiocese of Boston . He was Dean of Studies and Director of the Master of Arts in Ministry. Oliver has been responsible for legal affairs in the Archdiocese of Boston since 2010.

On December 20, 2012 he was received by Pope Benedict XVI. appointed as the successor to Charles Scicluna as "Advocate of Justice" in the Roman Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith .

Individual evidence

  1. Boston Priest to Lead Vatican's Oversight of Sex Abuse Claims , New York Times , December 22, 2012 (English)
  2. Pope appoints new chief prosecutor ( Memento of December 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) , Vatican Radio , December 22, 2012 (English)