Reverend Paul Golden, J.C.D.
Institute in Pastoral Ministries - Adjunct Faculty
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(303) 698-0458
pgolden@smumn.edu

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Father Paul is the director of Vincentian Canonical Services which he founded in 1999. Through this agency he offers canonical education and advocacy to religious, priests and lay ministers. He holds a Masters of Divinity from DeAndreis Seminary in Illinois, a Licentiate in Canon Law from the Gregorianum in Rome and a Doctorate in Canon Law from the Angelicum in Rome. A Vincentian priest, Father Paul has been teaching canon law since 1968. He served as Rector/President of St. Thomas Theological Seminary in Denver, vice-president of DePaul University, and President of Niagara University. He is currently a trustee of DePaul University. He has authored numerous monographs and annually publishes several canonical advisory opinions. In the late 1980s he was elected President of the Canon Law Society of America that honored him in 2005 with its annual Role of Law Award. Father Paul is an adjunct professor of theology at Regis University in Denver and teaches canon law with Loyola University New Orleans, University of Dayton, Aquinas Institute as well as with Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota. Father is a member of national and international commissions for religious institutes and he travels extensively to give workshops and seminars to clergy and other pastoral ministers.

Education
J.C.D., St. Thomas University (Rome), 1971
J.C.L., Pontifical Gregorian University, 1967
M.Div., DeAndreis Seminary (Lemont), 1963
B.A., Philosophy, St. Mary's Seminary (Perryville), 1961