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Edward N. Peters

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Edward N. Peters is an American canonist and Referendary of the Apostolic Signatura . He is professor of canon law at the Sacred Heart Major Seminary of the Archdiocese of Detroit.

Edward Neal Peters was born in 1957 and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, where he attended the Chaminade College Preparatory School until 1975. He went on to attend St. Louis University, majoring in Political Science, graduating in 1979. He earned his JD from University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law in 1982, during the third year of which he was a teaching assistant in the Legal Research and Writing Program for Tate Hall. After graduation, Peters was admitted to the Missouri Bar Association.

In 1988, Peters earned his J.C.L. degree from the Catholic University of America and was named Quasten Fellow for doctoral studies there, completing doctoral course work in 1990, and defending his doctoral dissertation, Penal Procedural Law in the 1983 Code of Canon Law, in August 1991.

Over the next twelve years, he served as Director of the Office for Canonical Affairs, Vice-Chancellor and Chancellor, Defender of the Bond, and Collegial Judge for diocesan and appellate tribunals for the dioceses of Duluth and San Diego. From May 2001, Peters taught at the Institute for Pastoral Theology in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In 2005, he was appointed to the Cardinal Szoka Chair of Canon Law at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit. In 2010, he was named a Referendary of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura by Pope Benedict XVI. becoming the first layman appointed to such a post since the re-establishment of the Signatura early in the 20th century.

His blog, In the Light of the Law, has received the attention of such news outlets as the Huffington Post and The Associated Press.

Edward N. Peters

3.9/5 ( ratings)
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Edward N. Peters is an American canonist and Referendary of the Apostolic Signatura . He is professor of canon law at the Sacred Heart Major Seminary of the Archdiocese of Detroit.

Edward Neal Peters was born in 1957 and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, where he attended the Chaminade College Preparatory School until 1975. He went on to attend St. Louis University, majoring in Political Science, graduating in 1979. He earned his JD from University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law in 1982, during the third year of which he was a teaching assistant in the Legal Research and Writing Program for Tate Hall. After graduation, Peters was admitted to the Missouri Bar Association.

In 1988, Peters earned his J.C.L. degree from the Catholic University of America and was named Quasten Fellow for doctoral studies there, completing doctoral course work in 1990, and defending his doctoral dissertation, Penal Procedural Law in the 1983 Code of Canon Law, in August 1991.

Over the next twelve years, he served as Director of the Office for Canonical Affairs, Vice-Chancellor and Chancellor, Defender of the Bond, and Collegial Judge for diocesan and appellate tribunals for the dioceses of Duluth and San Diego. From May 2001, Peters taught at the Institute for Pastoral Theology in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In 2005, he was appointed to the Cardinal Szoka Chair of Canon Law at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit. In 2010, he was named a Referendary of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura by Pope Benedict XVI. becoming the first layman appointed to such a post since the re-establishment of the Signatura early in the 20th century.

His blog, In the Light of the Law, has received the attention of such news outlets as the Huffington Post and The Associated Press.

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The 1917 or Pio-Benedictine Code of Canon Law: in English Translation with Extensive Scholarly Apparatus

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