Loyola Institute for Ministry Names New Director
A one-time Institute for Ministry teacher has returned as director. Thomas F. Ryan, who had been chair of the Department of Religious Studies at St. Thomas University, Miami Gardens, Florida, was named director of the Loyola University New Orleans Institute for Ministry (LIM) in the summer.
He had been on the St. Thomas faculty since 1997. He was twice selected as the university’s Professor of the Year. Earlier in his career, Ryan taught courses for LIM and LIM’s extension program.
Ryan is the author of Thomas Aquinas as Reader of the Psalms (University of Notre Dame Press, 2000) and co-editor of an Eerdmans series, Bible in Tradition: A Library of Biblical Interpretation from the Middle Ages to the Present.
Ryan earned bachelor’s and doctoral degrees in theology at the University of Notre Dame, and a master’s degree in the history of Christian thought at the Yale Divinity School. A New Orleans native, Ryan is a graduate of Jesuit High School and taught theology at Jesuit from 1985 to 1990. He and his wife, Elizabeth, have three daughters.
Ryan replaced Mark S. Markuly, who was recently appointed dean of the School of Theology and Ministry at Seattle University, another Jesuit institution.