This prestigious award is given to scholars that have stood out for their scientific research in the theological field.

2011

Prof. Manlio Simonetti (Rome, Italy – 1926-2017). Full Professor of History of Christianity at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” and professor of the Augustinian Patristic Institute of Rome.

Rev. Prof. Olegario González de Cardedal (Lastra del Cano-Ávila, Spain – 1934). Ordained priest in 1959, he is Full Professor of Dogmatic Theology and director of the department “Domingo de Soto” at the Pontifical University of Salamanca.

Rev. Prof. Maximilian Heim (Kronach-Bavaria, Germany – 1961). Cistercian priest from 1988, he is abbot of the monastery of Heiligenkreuz and Full Professor of Fundamental Theology and Dogmatics (Ecclesiology) at the University of Heiligenkreuz.

2012

Prof. Rémi Brague (Paris, France – 1947). Full Professor of Medieval and Arab Philosophy at the University Panthéon-Sorbonne and Professor of Philosophy of European Religions at the Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich.

Rev. Prof. Brian E. Daley SJ (Orange-New Jersey, USA – 1940). Jesuit priest from 1970, he is professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame (Indiana, USA).

2013

Rev. Prof. Richard A. Burridge (Rothbury-Northumberland, England – 1955). Ordained priest of the Anglican Church in 1986, he is the dean of the King’s College of London, where he is also professor of Biblical Interpretation.

Dr. Christian Schaller (Munich of Bavaria, Germany – 1967). Deputy director of the Institut Papst Benedikt XVI of Regensburg, he is in charge of the publication of the Opera Omnia by Joseph Ratzinger-Benedict XVI.

2014

Prof. Anne-Marie Pelletier (Paris, France – 1946). Professor of Sacred Scriptures and Biblical hermeneutics at the Notre Dame Faculty of the Seminar of Paris.

Rev. Prof. Waldemar Chrostowski (Chrostowo, Poland – 1951). Ordained priest in 1976, he is professor of Exegesis of the Old Testament and of Theology at the Theology Faculty of the Academy of Warsaw, today Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University. He is the head of the Association of Polish Biblicists and is engaged in Catholic-Jewish and Polish-Jewish dialogue.

2015

Rev. Prof. Mario de França Miranda SJ (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 1936). Jesuit priest, full professor of Theology at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. He was member of the International Theology Commission.

Prof. Nabilel-Khoury (Mtaile-Chouf, Lebanon – 1941). Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature at the Université Libanaise of Beirut and the University of Tubingen. He translated the Joseph Ratzinger’s Opera Omnia in Arabic.

2016

Rev. Prof. Inos Biffi (Lomagna, Italy – 1934). Emeritus Professor of Systematic Theology and History of Medieval Theology at the Theological Faculty of Northern Italy and at the Theological Faculty of Lugano.

Prof. Ioannis Kourempeles (Athens, Greece – 1965). Professor of History of Dogmas and Dogmatic and Symbolic Theology at the Faculty of Theology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

2017

Prof. Theodor Dieter (Neubulach, Germany – 1951). Lutheran theologian. Professor (from 1994) and Director (from 1997) of the Institute for Ecumenical Research of Strasbourg.

Rev. Prof. Karl-Heinz Menke (Fürstenau, Germany – 1950). Theologian and Catholic priest. Emeritus Professor of Dogmatics and Theological Propaedeutics at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Bonn.

M° Arvo Pärt (Paide, Estonia – 1935). Orthodox Christian, music composer, he is devoted to sacred music and well known in the international context.

2018

Prof. Marianne Schlosser (Donauwörth-Bavaria, Germany – 1959). Full professor of Theology of spirituality at the Faculty of Catholic Theology of the University of Vienna. She is a member of the International Theological Commission.

Arch. Mario Botta (Mendrisio, Switzerland – 1943). He is an internationally renowned architect. He has built valuable sacred buildings for the prayers of the Christian Assembly.

2019

Prof. Charles Margrave Taylor (Montréal, Canada – 1931). Philosopher, professor emeritus of the Université de Montréal and McGill University.

Rev. Prof. Paul Béré SJ (Originally from Burkina Faso, but born 1966 in Ivory Coast). Professor of Old Testament and Biblical Languages at the Biblical Institute in Rome and at the Jesuit Theological Institute in Abidjan (Ivory Coast).

2020

Prof. Jean-Luc Marion (Paris, France – 1946), philosopher and theologian. Professor of Metaphysics at the Sorbonne (Paris IV). Academician of France (2008), author of numerous publications and director of several prestigious publishing series.

Prof. Tracey Rowland (Ipswich, Queensland, Australia – 1963), theologian, holder of the St. John Paul II Research Chair in Theology at Notre Dame University of Australia. Former Dean of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family in Melbourne, she was a member of the International Theological Commission.

2021

Prof. Hanna-Barbara Gerl-Falkovitz (Oberwappenhöst, Germany – 1945). Professor emeritus of Philosophy of Religions and Comparative Religious Sciences at the University of Dresden. Curator of the Operae Omniae of Edith Stein and Romano Guardini. Member of the Presidency of the European Institute of Philosophy and Religion at the Phil.-Theol. Hochschule Benedikt XVI in Heiligenkreuz/Vienna.

Prof. Ludger Schwienhorst-Schönberger (Lüdinghausen, Germany – 1957). Professor of Old Testament at the University of Vienna. He is considered one of the leading experts on the Wisdom Books and in particular on the Song of Songs.

2022

Rev. Prof. Michel Fédou SJ (Lyon, France – 1952). Jesuit priest, professor of Dogmatic Theology and Patristics at the Jesuit Centre Sèvres in Paris. He is the author of numerous works, especially in the fields of Patristics and Christology.

Prof. Joseph H. Weiler (Johannesburg, South Africa – 1951). Of Jewish religion, he is Professor of Law at numerous universities and institutes of legal studies in the USA (New York, Harvard), as well as in Great Britain and various parts of the world. He is the author of many works on constitutional, international, European and human rights law.

2023

Rev. Prof. Pablo Blanco Sarto (Zaragoza, Spain – 1964). Ordained priest in 1997. Full professor at the University of Navarra in the areas of ecumenism, sacramental theology and ministry. Author of numerous studies and volumes on the life, thought and work of Joseph Ratzinger-Benedict XVI.

Prof. Francesc Torralba Roselló (Barcelona, Spain – 1967). Philosopher and theologian. He is an accredited professor at the Ramon Llull University and holds courses and seminars at other universities in Spain and America. He alternates his teaching activity with his commitment to writing and disseminating his thought, which is oriented towards philosophical anthropology and ethics.