Bernd Jochen Hilberath

Bernd Jochen Hilberath (born 1948) studied philosophy and theology in Munich and Mainz. He earned a doctorate in theology in 1977 and completed his habilitation in dogmatic and ecumenical theology in 1984. After holding professorships in Mainz, he became Professor of Dogmatic Theology and the History of Dogma at the University of Tübingen in 1992. From 1996 to 2014, he directed the university’s Institute for Ecumenical, later Ecumenical and Interreligious, Research. Hilberath is professor emeritus. From 2004 to 2006, he served as president of the Societas Oecumenica.