Robert John Dodaro, OSA is an American priest of the

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. He is a specialist in the writings of

St Augustine of Hippo Augustine of Hippo ( , ; la, Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis; 13 November 354 – 28 August 430), also known as Saint Augustine, was a theologian and philosopher of Berbers, Berber origin and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia (Roman pr ...

. Dodaro is a 1973 graduate of St. Augustine Seminary High School in Holland, Michigan. Until 2016, he served as the President of the

Patristic Institute Augustinianum The Patristicum, officially the Augustinian Patristic Institute ( la, Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum), is a pontifical institute in Rome, under the supervision of the Order of Saint Augustine The Order of Saint Augustine, ( la, Ordo ...

in Rome, and until 2018 was on the faculty as a Professor of

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. He was also a Professor of

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at the

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. He also serves as the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the '' Augustinus-Lexikon'', a

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, and on the Editorial Advisory Council of ''Dionysius''. His ''Christ and the Just Society in the Thought of Augustine'' was published by

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in 2004, and he was a Co-Editor of ''Augustine: Political Writings'', a collection of letters and sermons by Augustine that deal with political matters, and also of ''Augustine and His Critics'', a collection of essays in honour of Gerald Bonner.

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named him a member of the

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on 2 August 2016.

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Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum

A Turn to the Fathers: An Interview with Fr Robert Dodaro
Living people Patristic Institute Augustinianum Villanova University alumni Catholic Theological Union alumni Alumni of the University of Oxford Year of birth missing (living people) Augustine studies {{reli-studies-bio-stub

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