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Jose Tolentino Mendonca Calaça ComSE ( Machico , 15 of December of 1965 ) is a priest , poet and theologian Portuguese . He is a professor and vice-rector at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa .

He began his study of Theology in 1982 . Once ordained priest on 28 of July of 1990 , went to Rome , where he completed his master's degree in Biblical Studies. Returned to Portugal joined the Portuguese Catholic University , where he was chaplain and taught the disciplines of Hebrew and Christianity and Culture. There he got a doctorate in Biblical Theology , becoming an assistant professor. Directed by the year 2014 the National Secretariat of the Culture Ministry, that was the first Director and the magazine Didaskalia, Edited by the Faculty of Theology of the Portuguese Catholic University . In December 2011 he was appointed consultant to the Pontifical Council for Culture For a first term, and in 2016 it was again for one second. He spent the academic year 2011-12, as a Straus Fellow, at New York University, integrating a team of researchers-guests, engaged in the study of the theme "Religion and Public Space."
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