Luis Gonzalez-Carvajal Santabarbara

Luis González-Carvajal Santabárbara (Madrid, 1947), Spanish engineer, priest and theologian. He is considered one of the most widely read Christian authors in the Spanish language today.

Biography

He studied at the Mennaisian College in Madrid. In 1969, after finishing his career as a Senior Mining Engineer, he entered the Madrid Council Seminary, being ordained a priest in 1974 and incardinating himself in the Archdiocese of Madrid. He is a doctor in Theology from the Pontifical University of Salamanca.

He was curate first and then parish priest of various parishes in Madrid. He has also been a professor at the Escuela Universitaria de Magisterio ESCUNI, in Madrid and general secretary of Cáritas Española. Since 1982 he has been a professor of Moral Theology, first at the San Dámaso Center for Theological Studies, then at the Higher Institute of Pastoral Care in Madrid and, finally, at the Faculty of Theology of the Comillas Pontifical University, Madrid campus, where He has been a Proper Ordinary Professor (the equivalent of a professor at other universities), director of the Department of Moral Theology and director of the “Comillas Theology” collection.

After his retirement from the University (September 2012) he has been working for six years in the Nuestra Señora del Pilar parish, in Madrid, and is currently chaplain of the Santo Domingo el Real Monastery, also in Madrid, although he continues to write and give conferences.