Dr. José Antonio Calvo Gómez was born in Avila in 1975. He is a Diocesan Priest in Avila and received his PhD in Medieval History from the Universidad de Salamanca and his PHD in Dogmatic Theology from the Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, likewise he has a degree in Archiving from the Escuela Vaticana, and in Christian Archeology from the Pontificia Accademia Romana di Archeologia. Master of the Studium of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints in Rome.

He is vicar of Navalperal de Pinares, La Cañada y Tornadizos in Avila, and director of the Diocesan and Avila’s Cathedral Archive. He teaches Theology at the Universidad Católica de Avila, and History of the Church at the Universidad Eclesiástica San Dámaso, Madrid, and at the Instituto de Ciencias Religiosas of Avila. He is Episcopal delegate for the Cause of Saints in Avila.

He is a lecturer in several forums of History and has published numerous articles and research monographs about the medieval art and history of Avila, the Gregorian reform and the Catholic reform of the Church in the XI and XV century, the application of the Council of Trent in the Iberian Peninsula, the Patronato Regio in the days of Los Austrias, the Spanish popular religiousness, and the religious persecution in Spain in the XX century. Amongst his recent works the ones that stand out would be several collaborations and research articles on St. Teresa of Avila, the reform of Carmel and the Spanish spirituality in the XVI and XVII century.

• PhD in Medieval History. PhD in Dogmatic Theology.
• Theology professor at Universidad Católica de Ávila and History of the Church professor at Universidad Eclesiástica San Dámaso, Madrid, and at the Religious Sciences Institute of Avila.
• Vicar of Navalperal de Pinares, La Cañada y Tornadizos in Avila, and director of the Diocesan and Avila’s Cathedral Archive.