THE PRESIDENT

Msgr Gianfranco Ravasi was born in 1942 in Merate, in the Diocese of Milan, and was ordained a priest in 1966. He is the author of some 150 books and numerous articles on biblical science and exegesis, among them commentaries on the Old Testament books of Job, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, and Psalms or the New Testament Apocalypse, and letters to Romans and Corinthians. Since 1989 he has been the prefect of the Ambrosian Library in Milan and major canon of St. Ambrose. He is a member of the Pontifical Biblical Commission since 1995. He writes for the Italian Catholic daily Avvenire and collaborates with various newspapers and magazines in Italy and abroad. He also writes and leads the religious television program "Frontiers of the Spirit" on Italy 's Channel 5. ... read all

 

THE FORMER PRESIDENT

His Eminence, Cardinal Paul Poupard, President of the Pontifical Council of Culture, is in charge of the STOQ project.

He was born on August 30, 1930 in Bouzillé, Maine-et-Loire (France). From 1958 to 1959, he was assigned to the National Center for Scientific Research and from 1959 to 1971 he was an official of the Secretary of State and Chaplain of the St. Dominic Institute in Rome. From 1971 to 1981 he was rector of the Catholic Institute of Paris and in 1979 he was elected Auxiliary Bishop to the Archbishop of Paris. ... read all