Dr. Edward Peters

Dr. Edward Peters holds the Edmund Cardinal Szoka Chair at Sacred Heart Major Seminary. He received his civil law degree from the University of Missouri at Columbia and his licentiate and doctoral degrees in canon law from the Catholic University of America. Peters served in diocesan administrative positions for more than ten years and has been teaching graduate level courses in canon law for more than fifteen. His canonical writings have appeared in dozens of popular and professional journals around the world and he has made scores of appearance in Catholic and secular media venues. In 2010 Peters was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI to be the first lay Referendary of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, and in 2012 the same pope appointed him to serve as canonical expert for the XIII° Ordinary General Synod of Bishops addressing the New Evangelization.