Julián Carrón

Julian Carron (* 1950 in Navaconcejo in the province of Caceres, Spain) is a Catholic priest and leader of the movement Communion and Liberation. He followed in this responsibility directly to the founder of the Community Luigi Giussani, after his death on 22 February 2005.

Julian Carron Pérez studied theology in Madrid in 1975 and ordained a priest there. During the following pastoral work he devoted himself to further his studies in theology at the Pontifical University of Comillas, biblique at the School in Jerusalem, the Catholic University in Washington and at the Theological Faculty in Burgos. There he received his doctorate in 1984. He was director of the diocesan Department of Classical and Oriental Studies San Justino in Madrid, the Spanish edition of the International Catholic journal Communio and the journal Estudios Bíblicos. After that, he was professor of New Testament at the Theological Faculty of San Damaso in Madrid and Director of the Institute for Religious Studies.

Since 2004 he has lived in Italy, where he taught at the Università Cattolica in Milan since 2005.

His special interest has always been the study of Semitic background of the three Synoptic Gospels. In 2001, in the series Studia Semitica Novi Testamenti be co-written with José Miguel García Pérez book appeared on the dating of the Gospels.