Rocco Viviano, S.X.

Rocco Viviano, SX is an Italian missionary priest of the Xaverian Missionaries. He holds master’s degrees in Mission Studies and in Christianity and Interreligious Dialogue, as well as a doctorate in theology of interreligious dialogue from the University of London. He taught theology of mission and interreligious dialogue at Loyola School of Theology, Maryhill School of Theology, and other academic institutions in the Philippines and the United Kingdom. Since 2014, he has served in Japan, where he is Director of the Xaverian Asian Study Centre (CSA), coordinator of interreligious dialogue for the Xaverian Missionaries, and Director of the Commission for Interreligious Dialogue and Ecumenical Affairs of the Archdiocese of Osaka. His research focuses on Catholic theology of interreligious dialogue, the thought of Benedict XVI, and Christian-Muslim and Christian-Buddhist relations