DEACON SHERMAN'S PROFILE

The Reverend Deacon Professor Dr Sherman Kuek OFS is a permanent deacon of the Catholic Church, a Secular Franciscan, theologian, teacher, and preacher. As a deacon, he is incardinated in the Diocese of Melaka Johor, Malaysia. As a theologian, Deacon Sherman is the Cornelius Cardinal Sim Professor of Theology and Dialogue at the Christian Institute for Theological Engagement (CHRISTE), an ecumenical and cross-disciplinary research institute chartered under the EUCLID prerogative (United Nations Treaty Series 49006/49007) and affiliated with the School of Theology and Interfaith Studies of Polê Universitaire Euclide (UNESCO/IAU WHED ID: IAU-024734). He has also been appointed Visiting Professor at several institutions of higher education locally and abroad. As a teacher of the Catholic faith, he is the Convenor of the Splendour Project, a Catholic apostolate for formation, evangelisation, and discipleship. Deacon Sherman spends much of his time communicating the Christian faith through prolific speaking, writing and media production. His Doctor of Theology degree was conferred by Trinity Theological College in Singapore

DATE OF BIRTH
     16 June 1976

PLACE OF BIRTH
     Muar, Johor (Malaysia)

SECONDARY SCHOOL EDUCATION
     St Andrew's Secondary School, Muar

TERTIARY EDUCATION
     BSc Hons Management (1995 - 1998)
     University of Bradford, UK

     Master of Divinity (1999 - 2002)
     Trinity Theological College, Singapore

     Doctor of Theology (2002 - 2008)
     (Theology & Social Theory)
     Trinity Theological College, Singapore

MARITAL STATUS / CHILDREN
     Married / Son (born Sep 2010)

RECEIVED INTO FULL COMMUNION WITH THE CHURCH
     Easter Vigil of 2008

PERMANENT PROFESSION, ORDO FRANCISCANUS SAECULARIS
     28 August 2009 (Feast of St Augustine of Hippo)

DIACONAL ORDINATION
     16 June 2010 (by the Rt Rev. Paul Tan SJ, Bishop of Malacca Johore)

PROFESSORIAL INSTALLATION
     16 September 2021
     as Cornelius Cardinal Sim Professor of Theology and Dialogue
     for the Christian Institute for Theological Engagement (CHRISTE)

VISITING LECTURESHIPS / PROFESSORSHIPS
     Visiting Lecturer in Christian Spirituality and Ecclesiology
     Saint Paul's Theological College, Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
     
     Visiting Professor of Ecumenical and Interfaith Dialogue
     North East Institute of Social Sciences and Research, Nagaland (India)

     Visiting Professor of Social Science
     Saint Xavier College Jalukie, Nagaland (India)

     Visiting Professor of Asian Christianity
     Department of Christian Studies, University of Madras, Chennai (India)

PRESENT MINISTRY
     Theologian, Formator, Catechist, Lecturer

RESEARCH INTERESTS
     Ecumenism
     Interreligious Dialogue
     Modern Catholic Thought
     Theology and Social Theory
​     Modernity in the Global South
     The New Evangelisation