Clergy Conference

Bishop Gutiérrez calls all clergy to the Annual Clergy Conference! Clergy who cannot attend the entire event must contact the Bishop directly. A full schedule of the events will be provided soon. Clergy should plan to arrive by Monday afternoon (registration begins at 12pm). The event will close at noon on Wednesday.

Spouses/families are invited to join, if desired!

Other Details

If you wish to request a scholarship, please register and select "pay at the door" when checking out. Simply send an email to nclothier@diopa.org with a notification that you are paying by scholarship.

The cost to attend clergy conference this year is $300 per person. (The cost to the diocese is $887 per person. We are using a diocesan subsidy of $471 per person and a continuing education subsidy of $116 per person to lower the cost to you.)

Guest Speaker

Dr. Elizabeth "Libbie" Schrader Polczer, Assistant Professor of New Testament at Villanova University, will be the guest speaker. Libbie transitioned to religious scholarship after a long career as a singer/songwriter. She earned a doctoral degree in Early Christianity from Duke University and concentrates on textual studies concerning Mary Magdalene, and the Gospel of John. Her research has been published in the Harvard Theological Review, the Journal of Biblical Literature, TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism, and the Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Bulletin.

You can learn more about Libbie here.