Rev. David Nazar SJ is of Ukrainian origin and was born and brought up in Canada. He has an incredible experience of practicing faith in two different Rites, the Byzantine and the Latin, in the Catholic Church. He has earned master’s degrees from Gonzaga University and Regis College – University of Toronto, in addition to a PhD at the University of Ottawa. He is the current rector of the Pontifical Oriental Institute, the premier center for the study of Eastern Christianity in Rome. Nazar is the former Superior of Jesuits in Ukraine and former Provincial of the Jesuits in the English Canada Province.