John C. Bauerschmidt is the eleventh bishop of the Diocese of Tennessee. He was elected on October 28, 2006 and was consecrated at the non-denominational Christ Church in Nashville on January 27, 2007. Bishop Bauerschmidt is a graduate of Kenyon College, the General Theological Seminary and Oxford University. Prior to becoming bishop, he served in South Carolina, Massachusetts, England, North Carolina, and Louisiana. Bishop Bauerschmidt and his wife, Caroline, have three adult children. He has a professional interest in theology and an amateur love of history—particularly the history of ideas.

Frederick Christian (Fritz) Bauerschmidt is a Catholic deacon assigned to the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Baltimore and is Professor of Theology at Loyola University Maryland. He is the author of several books, including The Love That Is God (Eerdmans 2020), which won the 2023 Michael Ramsey Prize for Theological Writing, and the recently published No Lasting City: Essays on Theology, Politics, and Culture (Word on Fire Academic 2023).

Reinhard Huetter is Visiting Professor of Catholic Theology at Duke Divinity School. Professor Huetter’s teaching and research focuses on fundamental theological questions, such as the relationship between faith and reason, nature and grace, revelation and faith, theology and philosophy, dogma and history, questions of theological anthropology, and the theology and epistemology of faith. He has an abiding interest in the thought of Thomas Aquinas and has, in more recent years, developed an intense interest in the thought of John Henry Newman. His most recent book is John Henry Newman on Truth and Its Counterfeits: A Guide for Our Times (CUA Press, 2020).