Patrick T. Brannan, SJ, has the AB/MA (Cantab.) in the Classical Tripos from Cambridge University in England and the PhD in Classical Philology from Stanford University in California, as well as the ecclesiastical degrees PhL and STL in philosophy and theology. He has taught classical languages and some philosophy and theology (mainly in seminaries) and has done a good deal of translation. In Rome he was a translator at the Thirty-Fourth General Congregation of the Society of Jesus and also attended two Synods of Bishops in the Vatican as a translator of documents in French, German, Italian, Latin, Spanish, and English.
