Carmelite Edison Tinambunan Elected Rector of Widya Sasana School of Philosophy and Theology in Malang
On April 15, 2024, Edison Tinambunan, O. Carm., a member of the Indonesian Province, was unanimously elected as the rector of Widya Sasana School of Philosophy and Theology in Malang. The university was founded by Indonesian Carmelites and Vincentians in 1971 in Malang, Indonesia. This school offers academic degrees in both philosophy and theology from the baccalaureate, master, and doctoral levels. Today the school has around 400 students from different religious congregations, dioceses, and lay persons.
Edison earned licentiate and doctoral degrees in patristics from the Augustinianum and the Angelicum Rome. He completed his studies in 2001 and has taught extensively since then. He was the librarian of the Order at CISA from 2004 to 2010 and is a member of the Institutum Carmelitanum. He is the editor of the series Corpus Constitutionum Ordinis Fratrum Beatissimae Virginish Mariae de Monte Carmelo with the two part 5th volume in preparation.
