Monsignor Eduardo Chavez was born in Mexico City on December 31, 1956. From 1974 to 1981, he studied Philosophy and Theology at the Conciliar Seminary of Mexico and on August 15, 1981 was ordained priest in the Metropolitan Cathedral of the Archdiocese of Mexico.

Monsignor Chavez is a Doctor in Church History from the Pontifical Gregorian University of Rome and the Postulator of the Cause of Canonization of San Juan Diego. In 2003, he co-founded and is currently the General Director of the Instituto Superior de Estudios Guadalupanos (ISEG). He is likewise a Professor of the Pontifical University of Mexico, Canon of the Basilica of Guadalupe, Canon Master Theologian of the Venerable Cabildo of the Basilica of Guadalupe and Cultural Advisor of the Basilica of Guadalupe. He is a member of the Mexican Ecclesiastical History Society, the Knights of Columbus, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and Historical Sciences of Toledo, Spain and the Pontifical Mariana International Academy (PAMI). He is also the Founder and General Director of the Nican Mopohua Cultural Center and the Guadalupana International Academy.

Entrusted and sent both by Pope Francis and by Cardinal Carlos Aguiar, Archbishop Primate of Mexico, to continue deepening the Guadalupano event and proclaim it throughout the world, Msgr. Chavez has more than 50 works under his name, most on the subject of the Guadalupano event.

Born in Connecticut and raised in Nashville, Tennessee, Father Gladstone Stevens, PSS graduated from Quincy College in Quincy, Illinois in 1989. After graduate Biblical Studies at Vanderbilt University, he received his Ph.D. in Systematic Theology from Marquette University. He was ordained for the Archdiocese of Louisville in 2000 and has been with the Society of Saint Sulpice since 2002. For six years, he taught Systematic Theology and Philosophy and served as Vice Rector and France Merrick University Chair at Saint Mary’s Seminary & University in Baltimore, Maryland. In 2008, he was an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Systematic Theology at Saint Patrick’s Seminary & University in Menlo Park where he served as Vice Rector and Academic Dean until 2013, then as its Dean of Men, and later on, served as its President-Rector.

As a member of the Society of Saint Sulpice, a community of diocesan priests dedicated to educating and guiding future and fellow priests, Father Stevens is best known as someone who combines theological knowledge with religious counsel and encouragement. At Saint Patrick’s, he is regarded as an articulate and engaging professor of dogmatic theology. In California and beyond he is a regular retreat master, guides days of recollection and gives talks to priests especially, but also to laypeople seeking to deepen their faith.

Currently, Father Stevens is back at Saint Mary’s Seminary & University in Baltimore, Maryland teaching Systematic Theology