Thomas Petri OP

Father Thomas Petri (b. 1978) was born in Detroit, Michigan. When he was a child, his family moved to Madisonville, Kentucky. Convinced of a call to the priesthood, he joined the Roman Catholic Order of Preachers (i.e., the Dominicans) in 2003 and was ordained a priest in 2009. He holds multiple graduate degrees in theology including a Doctorate in Sacred Theology from The Catholic University of America. He was an assistant professor of theology at Providence College in Rhode Island until 2013 when he was named vice president and dean of the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C.

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