Dr. Matthew C. Briel

Matthew C. Briel, PhD, serves as Head of School at St. Augustine School in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Previously, he served as Assistant Professor of Theology at Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts, an Visiting Professor of Theology at the University of Mary. Dr. Briel previously served as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Scranton.

Before earning a PhD in Theology from Fordham University in 2016, Briel received an MA in Classics from the University of Minnesota in 2010, an MTS in the History of Christianity from the University of Notre Dame in 2007, and a BA in Philosophy, magna cum laude, from the University of Notre Dame in 2003. Briel has studied at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome, the Gennadius Library of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, the University of Vienna, and as an accredited scholar at the Vatican Library. He has written on a variety of topics from the history of Christian thought, including the works of St. John Henry Newman and Gennadios Scholarios.