Guido Vergauwen o.p.

Former Director of the ISO

Since January 2015: Provincial of the Swiss Dominicans

Since the end of FS 2015: emeritus

since WS 1985
Full Professor of Fundamental Theology at the Faculty of Theology of the University of Fribourg;
Director of the Institute of Ecumenical Studies.

SS 1985
Lecturer for Catholic Theology (majoring in Fundamental Theology) at the University of Zurich

From Nov. 1975

Head of studies in the field of theology at the Paulus Academy in Zurich;
Lecturer in Spirituality at the Seminar for Pastoral Care (Zurich);
Lecturer for the theological training of priests in the deanery of Zurich City.

1975
Doctorate at the Faculty of Theology, Fribourg:
Absolute and finite freedom. Schelling's doctrine of creation and fall
(Speakers: Prof. C.E. O'Neill and Prof. Ph. Secretan)

WS 1973/74
Lecturer for fundamental theology in Fribourg

1972-1975
Assistant to the Chair of Dogmatic Theology at the University of Fribourg

WS 1971/72
Study visit in Tübingen

1970-1971
Assistant to the Chair of Moral Theology at the University of Fribourg

1969
ordination

1968-1970
Study of theology at the Faculty of Theology of the University of Fribourg
(Thesis: La doctrine du péché dans la théologie de Paul Tillich)

1966-1968
Study of theology at the Studium Generale of the Flemish Province of the Order in Leuven

1963-1966
Study of Philosophy

1962
Entry into the Dominican Order; Novitiate

August 22nd, 1944.
born as son of Kamiel Vergauwen and Julia Rotthier in St. Niklaas (Belgium)

Primary school and grammar school Greek-Latin direction at the Sint-Jozef-Klein-Seminarie in St. Niklaas