Dr. Richard R. Gaillardetz currently holds the Margaret and Thomas Murray and James J. Bacik Endowed Chair in Catholic Studies at the University of Toledo in Ohio. Prior to comng to Toledo, Dr. Gaillardetz taught at the University of St. Thomas Graduate School of Theology in Houston from 1991 to 2001. He received a B.A. in Humanities from the University of Texas, an M.A. in Biblical Theology from St. Mary's University in San Antonio, and both an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame in Systematic Theology. He has published numerous articles and authored seven books while co-editing an eighth (for a complete list of his publications, navigate through the various categories of publications).

Dr. Gaillardetz was a Catholic delegate on the U.S. Catholic—Methodist Dialogue, 2000-2005. He served on the Board of Directors of the Catholic Theological Society of America from 2006 to 2008. He has received numerous awards from the Catholic Press Association for articles he has written and is a past recipient of the Sophia Award (2000), offered annually by the faculty of the Washington Theological Union in Washington D.C. in recognition of a theologian’s contributions to the life of the church. Dr. Gaillardetz is a popular speaker at theological and pastoral conferences (click on calendar for his current speaking commitments). He is married to Diana Gaillardetz and they are the parents of four boys: David, Andrew, Brian and Gregory.