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Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, O.P.
Ordained in 2002 for the Diocese of Lafayette (Louisiana), Fr. Guilbeau entered the Dominican novitiate in 2005 and professed his simple vows in 2006. Before joining the Order, Fr. Guilbeau obtained his Master of Divinity and Master of Arts degrees from St. John's Seminary in Boston, and a Licentiate in Sacred Theology (Patristic Theology) from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. In the fall of 2010, having completed three years of parochial ministry at the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer in New York City, Fr. Guilbeau began doctoral studies in fundamental moral theology at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland.
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Dominican Named to See of Prague
Archbishop Dominik Duka, O.P.
Posted by Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, O.P. on February 17, 2010
Archbishop Dominik Duka, O.P.
Below is the news story published by Zenit covering the Holy Father's recent election of a Czeck Dominican as the Archbishop of Prague. Archbishop Dominik Duka's extraordinary Dominican life offers us a glimpse into the struggles endured by the faithful of Eastern Europe while living under Communist rule.
NEW PRAGUE BISHOP ENDURED COMMUNIST PRISON
PRAGUE, Czech Republic, FEB. 15, 2010 (Zenit.org).- A bishop who was forced to work in a factory instead of as a priest, and who endured time in a Communist prison, has been named the archbishop of Prague.
Bishop Dominik Duka of Hradec Kralove, 66, succeeds Cardinal Miloslav Vlk, 77, who has retired for reasons of age.
Dominik Duka was born in 1943. He entered the Dominican Order, making his temporary profession in 1969, and receiving priestly ordination the next year.
For five years he worked in several parishes in Prague, and made his perpetual vows in 1972.
Three years later, he was deprived of authorization to exercise his priestly ministry, and was forced to work in a car factory in Plzen for almost 15 years (until 1989).
Meanwhile, he worked in secret within his congregation as master of novices and professor of theology.
He was imprisoned in Plzen between 1981 and 1982, according to the biography issued by the Vatican press office.
After the fall of Communism, he was elected president of the Federal Conference of Major Superiors and, from 1992 to 1996 was vice-president of the Union of European Conferences of Major Superiors.
From 1990 to 1999 he was a professor in the faculty of theology of Palacky University in Olomouc. On June 6, 1998, Pope John Paul II appointed him bishop of Hradec Kralove.