Dr Fáinche Ryan elected Vice President of European Society of Catholic Theology

Posted on: 17 October 2023

Dr Fáinche Ryan, Associate Professor in Systematic Theology at the Loyola Institute, Trinity College Dublin, has been elected Vice President of the prestigious European Society of Catholic Theology. Dr Ryan will serve as Vice President for two years and then as President for a further two years.

The European Society for Catholic Theology (ESCT) is the preeminent organisation in Europe promoting the academic discipline of Catholic theology and is composed of members from 22 countries. The Society is concerned primarily with Catholic theology at the intersection where Church and society meet. The ESCT offers itself as a support both to the Church and to society across Europe by engaging with questions that challenge Christian faith, as well as contemporary European culture.

Dr Michael Kirwan, Director of the Loyola Institute & Assistant Professor of Theology in the Catholic Tradition at Trinity College Dublin said:

“We are delighted that Dr Fáinche Ryan has been elected vice president of the prestigious European Society of Catholic Theology. This is a great honour for her, for Loyola Institute, and for Trinity College Dublin.”

About Dr Fáinche Ryan

Dr Fáinche Ryan is Associate Professor in Systematic Theology at the Loyola Institute, Trinity College Dublin. She was elected Fellow of Trinity College Dublin in 2019. Before taking up her post at Trinity in 2013, she lectured at Mater Dei Institute, Dublin City University, at the Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology, Cambridge, and was an affiliated lecturer at the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge. She completed her doctorate work in 2007 on sacra doctrina in the theology of Thomas Aquinas at the Angelicum, Rome. Dr Ryan’s current research focuses on the virtue of truth telling, in the context of a so-called 'post-truth' era. Forthcoming publications include an edited collection Theology and the University (Routledge, 2024).