REV. THOMAS BAIMA, M.B.A., S.T.D.,

Vice Rector for Academic Affairs & Dean of the Graduate School
Professor in the Department of Systematic Theology

B.A., Butler University; S.T.B., M.Div., S.T.L., University of St. Mary of the Lake; M.B.A., (Templeton); S.T.D., Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Rome. Former Associate Pastor of Our Lady of the Wayside Parish in Arlington Heights and Saint Damian Parish in Oak Forest; Former Director, Archdiocese of Chicago, Office for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs; Former President, Illinois Conference of Churches, Council of Religious Leaders of Metropolitan Chicago and O’Hare Interfaith Chapel Corporation. Trustee, Emeritus Council for a Parliament of the World’s Religions. Author: Concordat of Agreement Between the Episcopal Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America: Lessons on the Way Toward Full Communion. Co author: Understanding Four Views of The Lord’s Supper. Editor: What is a Parish? Canonical, Theological and Pastoral Perspective and Legacy of Jewish/Catholic Dialogue: The Joseph Cardinal Bernardin Lectures. Member of the American Academy of Religion, American Catholic Philosophical Association, National Association of Diocesan Ecumenical Officers and North American Academy of Ecumenists.