Bede Ukwuije

Bede Ukwuije, a Spiritan, is a professor and vice chair of the Department of Theology. Ordained a Catholic priest on July 31, 1994, he became a missionary in France for 12 years, serving as Students’ Chaplain at the University of Rennes II, Chaplain of African Migrants’ Community in the dioceses of Rennes and Nanterre, and Formator at the Spiritan Formation Community in Clamart. He was also Associate priest at Ste Madeleine Parish, Châtenay-Malabry (1999-2005).

He taught Systematic Theology at the Institut Catholique de Paris and the Spiritan International School of Theology, Attakwu Enugu (SIST), Nigeria. He was also Guest Professor at the McGrath Institute for Church Life, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, USA in the year 2022.

He served as the First Assistant to the Superior General of the Spiritans in Rome(2012-2021) and member of the Theological Commission of the Union of Superiors General (2016-2019).

• ThD, Institut Catholique de Paris (ICP)
• PhD/STD, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL)
• Th.M, Institut Catholique de Paris (ICP)
• Major: Science and Theology of Religions
• B.Th. Facultés Jésuites du Centre Sèvres, Paris
• Phil: Facultés Jésuites du Centre Sèvres, Paris

Father Bede is currently working with the University of Notre Dame Press for the publication of Trinity and Inculturation (author’s translation of Trinité et Inculturation (Paris: Desclée, 2008) and with Karthala, Paris, for the publication of Trinité, le nom chrétien de Dieu (French translation of The Trinitarian God, Contemporary Relevance and Challenges ((Mumbai: Paulines, 2013) Translated by Jean-Michel Jolibois, CSSp.