Rev. Professor Richard A. Burridge (born on 11^th June 1955) is Dean of the King’s College London, where he also teaches Biblical Interpretation. Richard Burridge graduated and obtained a Master at the University College of Oxford and a Ph.D. at the University of Nottinghan. His doctoral thesis on the Gospels was published in 1992 with the title “What are the Gospels? A Comparison with Graeco-Roman Biography” and it is highly influential. Before joining the King's College London, Richard Burridge was chaplain at the University of Exeter (1987-1994), where he also taught Theology and Classics. He was first a classicist and schoolmaster at Sevenoaks School (1978-1982) and then he attended St John's College in Nottingham for the Anglican priesthood. He was ordained deacon in 1985 and priest in 1986 and was Curate at St. Peter and St. Paul, Bromley, Kent (1985-1987). Richard Burridge has been Dean of King's College London since 1994 and he was elected as a Member of the College in 2002. In 2007 he was appointed Director of New Testament Studies and in 2008 he was appointed to a personal Chair in Biblical Interpretation. Richard Burridge is a member of the General Synod of the Church of England and of the Evaluation Committee for ordination and theological education (1996-2004); he is currently serving as a representative of the Church Commissioners and as Deputy Chair on the Ethical Investment Advisory Group. Richard Burridge was a member of Cumberland Lodge from 1998 to 2008.

Christian Schaller was born in Munich, Bavaria, in 1967. He studied at the faculty of theology of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in his hometown. During his Diplomarbeit (Licence thesis), he dealt with one aspect of the theology of Joseph Ratzinger - Benedict XVI: “The Eucharistic Ecclesiology in the context of the Sacramentality of the Church” was the title of the paper presented by Prof. Dr. Gerhard Ludwig Müller.

From 1997 to 2000, he was a research assistant of Systematic Theology for future secondary school teachers at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich and of the Research Project known as Religion: the history of a modern fundamental concept from Old Christianity to the twentieth century”.

During his period as a research assistant of the chair of Dogmatics (2000–2003) at the University of Munich, he produced his doctoral thesis. This work compared the ecclesiological developments that led to an intense self-thematization of the Church in the Second Vatican Council and were included in the Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, to the nineteenth century. It was an analysis of the concept of "Sacramentality of the Church" in the New Testament and in the history of theology as well as its systematic exposure in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. From 2003 to 2012, Christian Schaller was the theological assistant of Gerhard Ludwig Müller, Bishop of Regensburg, and at the same time, since 2008, Deputy Director (vicar) of the Institut Papst Benedikt XVI, editor of the book ”Joseph Ratzinger – Gesammelte Schriften”  (Opera Omnia) and responsible for the establishment of a specialized library and an archive for scientific research on the theological work of the Pope Emeritus.

Among the publications by Prof. Schaller there is “La 'cattolicità non perduta' Joseph Ratzinger e le Chiese Ortodosse”. As co-editor he wrote the Ratzinger-Studien (from 2008) and the communications Mitteilingen. Institut Papst Benedikt XVI. (from 2008). The main topics of the work of Schaller are Christology and Ecclesiology.