Fr. Dinisio Miranda heads academic planning and development office

Fr. Dinisio Miranda heads academic planning and development office

Fr. Miranda

Fr. Dionisio Miranda, SVD, has been appointed Presidential Assistant for Academic Planning and Development effective July 1, 2007. A member of the USC Board of Trustees and long-time professor of theology at the University of Sto. Tomas, Divine Theological Seminary, and Loyola House of Studies, among others, Fr. Miranda brings with him a wealth of experience needed to help chart the University's academic future and plan for its further development.

Fr. Miranda holds a doctorate in Sacred Theology (summa cum laude, 1984) from Academia Alfonsiana in Rome, where he also took his licentiate in Sacred Theology (also summa cum laude). These two sterling degrees are but the pinnacle of an illustrious academic life marked by outstanding achievements. He was an elemenrary salutatorian and high school valedictorian of St. Louis University in Baguio, and graduated his A.B. Philosophy degree magna cum laude from Christ the King Seminary in Quezon City. He then took an M.A. Philosophy, magna cum laude, at the Divine Word Seminary in Tagaytay.

He first came to USC in 1969 where he taught at the Boys High School (now North Campus) while taking graduate courses in guidance and counseling. After various assignments that brought him to South America, Europe and Oceania, he returned to the Philippines in the late 1980s to take up various appointments in Divine Word schools and universities. He returned to USC in 1987 to serve as a member of the Board of Trustees until 1996. He was re-elected to the board in 2003 and has served as a trustee since then.

In between teaching duties in various theological seminaries and at UST, Fr. Miranda has been attending conferences abroad, while writing books and scholarly articles. In 2004, his book "Kaloob ni Kristo" won the Gintong Aklat Award under the Religious Books Category of the National Book Development Association of the Philippines.

A moral theologian and bioethics expert, he is the first president of the Bioethics Society of the Philippines (2000-2002).

Author: J.E. Bersales
18 / July / 2007