Rev. Becket Soule, O.P.
Ordinary Professor of Canon Law
A.B. in Classical Languages and Ancient History (1978)
Davidson College; Davidson, North Carolina
Dr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Staley Scholar; Alumni Scholarship
Thesis: The Synod of Whitby (664) and the Pre-Conquest English Church
A.M. in Classical Philology (1980)
Harvard University; Cambridge, Massachusetts
B.D. in Church History and Canon Law, with honors (1981)
Episcopal Divinity School; Cambridge, Massachusetts
James Arthur Muller Prize in Church History, 1981
J.C.L. in Canon Law (1992); J.C.D. in Canon Law (1996)
The Catholic University of America; Washington, D.C.
Dissertation: The Summa De multiplici iuris divisione: An Introduction and Critical Text
Certificate in Genealogical Research (2018)
Boston University; Boston, Massachusetts
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Fr. Becket Soule studied at Davidson College, the Episcopal Divinity School, the University of Dallas, and Harvard University, and holds the professional Certificate in Genealogical Research from Boston University. Fr. Becket has taught at the Catholic University of America, the Pontifical College Josephinum (Columbus, OH), St Paul University (Ottawa, Ontario), the University of Durham, Cambridge University, and Oxford University. He has been visiting lecturer and fellow at other institutions of higher studies in the United States, Great Britain, and the Ukraine; after serving as an official for the Congregation for the Eastern Churches in Rome, he became the first Judicial Vicar and Episcopal Vicar for the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter (US and Canada). He was Catholic Campus Minister at the College of William and Mary, and continues to be in demand internationally as a lecturer, preacher, and retreat master; he has served as pastor of Anglican and Catholic parishes in North Carolina, Texas, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and Essex (England). Fr. Becket is currently Professor of Canon Law at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception (Dominican House of Studies) in Washington, DC, where he had previously served as Dean and Vice President. His articles and reviews have appeared in The Jurist, The Thomist, Studia Canonica, New Blackfriars, Orientalia Christiana Periodica, Kanon, Folia Canonica, The Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey, Roman Replies and CLSA Advisory Opinions, the North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal and the Mayflower Quarterly (for both of which he served as book review editor), and the Ecclesiastical Law Journal, and he was a contributor to the 4th edition of the Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. His principal areas of specialisation include Mediaeval and Early Modern History (legal and ecclesiastical; Tudor and Stuart England; Peter Lombard), Law (Anglican, Eastern, and Latin Canon Law, esp. procedures; Roman Law; British Constitutional History), Classical Languages (esp. Fifth Century BC Greek History and Comedy, Latin Prose Composition, Late Roman Republic), and Genealogy (esp. 17th/18th century New England; North Carolina).