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Father Peter Joseph
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Fr Peter Joseph was born in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, the seventh of 12 children. He was educated there at St Maria Goretti Primary School, Bishop Henschke Boys Primary School, and then at St Ignatius College, Riverview, Sydney. In 1985, he was sent by Bishop Brennan as a seminarian for the Diocese of Wagga Wagga to Corpus Christi College, Melbourne. In that time he was a student of Catholic Theological College. He continued his seminary training in Rome for the next six years at the Pontifical Urban College of Propaganda Fide, gaining his S.T.B, and S.T.L. in Dogma, at the Pontifical Urban University.
In 1992 he was ordained priest in Wagga, where he taught dogma at the diocesan seminary, Vianney College, and worked in parishes and as part-time school chaplain.
From 1996-1998 he studied in Rome again, at the Pontifical Gregorian University, for a doctorate in theology which he received in 2003 for a thesis on "The Risen Body in St Thomas Aquinas' Scriptum super Sententiis and Summa contra Gentiles".
In 2001 he published a revised and expanded version of Apologetics and Catholic Doctrine by Archbishop Michael Sheehan, printed by the Saint Austin Press, London, and launched in Sydney by Archbishop Pell.
Fr Joseph has been a regular contributor to AD 2000, and has also had articles and book reviews printed in Annals, Faith Magazine (UK), The Catholic Answer (USA) and Sursum Corda (USA). He has been a regular speaker at lay conferences and apostolic movements.
From 1999-2002 he was Vice-rector, Dean of Studies, and lecturer in theology at Vianney College.
A member of the Maronite Church, he was sent in 2003 to Sydney to take up his appointment as Chancellor of the Maronite Diocese of Australia.
Fr Joseph has been an Adjunct lecturer at the John Paul
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