Fr. Andrew Hofer OP, who hails from Kansas, has been named our new Master of Students.
Click here for more info on our pontifical faculty website.
This is a huge job with over 50 friars in formation. Fr. Andrew has served on our vocation council and many other capacities for our province.
Please keep him and all our friars in your prayers.
After growing up as the youngest of ten children on a farm in Kansas, he studied history, philosophy, and classics at Benedictine College. He then went to St Andrews, Scotland for a Master of Letters in medieval history. He entered the Order of Preachers as a son of the Province of St. Joseph, and was ordained a priest in 2002. After finishing his S.T.L. and serving as an associate pastor for a brief time, he was sent to Kenya as a missionary for two years. He taught at the Tangaza College of The Catholic University of Eastern Africa and other institutions in Nairobi. He returned to the U.S. and completed the Ph.D. in theology at the University of Notre Dame, with the primary area of history of Christianity (specializing in patristic theology with additional studies in medieval theology) and the secondary area of systematic theology. His research appears in such journals as Vigiliae Christianae, Augustinianum, Int