Vatican City, Nov 24, 2003 / 22:00 pm
Pope John Paul II appointed Fr. Michael Miller, C.S.B., President of St. Thomas University in Houston, U.S.A., as the new Secretary of the Congregation for Catholic Education.
Fr. Miller, who will be consecrated Archbishop, will replace Archbishop Giuseppe Pittau, a Jesuit and former Rector of the Gregorian University, whose resignation was presented upon having reached the age limit.
The Archbishop-elect was born in Ottawa, Canada on July 9, 1946. He was ordained a priest on June 29, 1975 after graduating in Theology at St. Michael’s College in Toronto.
In 1976 he obtained a licentiate summa cum laude in Dogmatic Theology at the Pontifical Gregorian in Rome and in 1979, he completed his doctorate also summa cum laude.