Rev. Piotr M. Paciorek, Acting Dean of the Pre-Theologate

Rev. Piotr M. Paciorek, S.T.D. is an Acting Dean of Pre-Theologate and Adjunct Professor of Theology. He wrote his doctoral dissertation on the Holy Scripture as the Rule of Faith and of Morality of the Church according to the Enarrationes in Psalmos of Augustine of Hippo. He holds M.A. degree in Theology from the Papal Academy of Theology of Poznań, Poland; M.A. in Theology, S.T.L. in Church History and S.T.D. from the Catholic University of Lublin, Poland. He has received the titular D.E.A. (Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies) Intensive Advanced Study in the Didactic of Languages and Cultures, with highest honors (Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III, France). Since 1993 he has been a Member of the International Society of Patristic Studies. He lectured at the University of Sorbonne Paris IV, France; the University of Oxford, United Kingdom; at Augustinianum Instituto Patristico (Pontificia Università Lateranense, Rome). He taught Fundamental and Sacramental Theology, Patristics, and Church History at SS. Cyril and Methodius Seminary, Orchard Lake MI, and at St. Vincent De Paul Regional Seminary, Boynton Beach FL.  His research mainly concerns the patristic exegesis of the Bible, concentrating on early formation of patristic philosophy and theology up to the rise of the great philosophical and theological systems of the Middle-Ages.

• M.A., Institute of Theology, Poznań, Poland
• M.A., S.T.L., S.T.D., Catholic University of Lublin, Poland
• D.E.A., University of Sorbonne Paris III, France

PUBLICATIONS 

• "L'Adoration des Mages (Mt 2.1-12) dans la tradition patristique et au Moyen Âge jusqu'au 12^e siècle" (English translation: The Adoration of the Magi in the Patristic Tradition and in the Middle Age up to the 12^th century), Augustiniana 50 (2000), 85-140. (See Ed. R. Althann, Elenchus of Biblica 16 (2000) no 4821, p. 291. 886.)
• "Les diverses interprétations patristiques des quatre vivants d'Ezéchiel 1.10 et de l'Apocalypse 4.6-7 jusqu'au 12^e siècle" (English translation: Various patristic interpretations of the Four Living Creatures from the Book of Ezekiel 1.10 and from the Book of Revelation 4.6-7 until the 12^th century') Augustiniana 51 (2001), 151-218. (See Ed. R. Althann, Elenchus of Biblica 17 (2001) no 12019, p. 751. 860.)
• "L'anthropologie trichotomique (1 Thess 5.23) et la résurrection de la chair selon Irénée et Origène" (English translation: Trichotomical Anthropology (1 Thess 5.23) and the Resurrection of the Body According to Irenaeus and Origen), Studia Ephemeridis Augustinianum 96 (Roma: Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum 2006), 465-476.
• ‘Christ and Melchizedek both Fatherless and Motherless in the Christology of Augustine of Hippo', Studia Patristica XLIII (ed. F. Young, M. Edwards and P. Parvis, Leuven, Belgium: Peeters, 2006), 213-219.
• ‘Cristo y Melquisedec, ambos sin padre ni madre, en la cristologia de Agustin de Hipona', Augustinus LII (trad. Enrique A. Eguiarte, Madrid, Spain: Revista de estudios agustinianos, 2007), 177-183. 
• Fifteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies, Oxford University 6^th-11^th August 2007. Communication ‘The Anthropological Hermeneutic in Patristic Theology' on August 9, 2007.