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Juan Antonio Gil Tamayo, professor and priest of School of Theology at the University of Navarra, died on Saturday, March 9, in Pamplona. He was born in Zalamea de la Serena, Badajoz, in 1966. He was Director of programs of study of the School between 2010 and 2016, as well as Professor of the department of Historical Theology and Deputy Director of the committee of Direction of the journal Scripta Theologica. He has also been a formator and spiritual director of seminar Bidasoa.

Brother José María Gil Tamayo, the current bishop of Avila, arrived in Pamplona in 1983 to study his last year of high school diploma and to study at degree program at the University of Navarra. He graduated from Philosophy in 1989 and studied the licentiate degree in Historical Theology at School of Theology. In 2002 he received his doctorate in this same center with award extraordinary with the thesis "The Church as mystery of communion in Cyprian of Carthage". That same year he was ordained a priest and shortly after he completed a biennium of specialization in Rome.

In addition to numerous journal articles, he has published several books on patristic topics. His latest work, the Spanish edition of El Credo comentado por los Padres: Creo en la Iglesia, published by Ciudad Nueva, is ready to go to press.

Professor Juan Chapa, Dean of the School of Theology, assures that Professor Gil Tamayo will be remembered for the intense activity he developed as Director of programs of study and for his dedication to his students, "especially to the future priests, putting great effort and sacrifice so that they could make the best possible use of their time at School. He was elected on numerous occasions patron of the graduating class, fruit of that dedication and affection".

"John Anthony showed that he wanted to be what he believed in, as St. Cyprian already wrote in the third century in a treatise on death: 'Let us prove that we are what we believe in.' Certainly, he was so loved for his great humanity and his great faith. He was a priest who wanted to serve the church generously by doing the will of God".

• Obituary written by Professor Juan Chapa, Dean of the School of Theology (PDF)

• Obituary written by Professor Juan Alonso, President of the seminar Bidasoa International (PDF)