Fr Albertus Bagus Laksana appointed Provincial of Indonesian Province
Father General Arturo Sosa has appointed Fr Albertus Bagus Laksana as the new Provincial of the Indonesian Province of the Society of Jesus. He will formally assume office on 27 July 2026.
Born in 1972, Fr Bagusentered the Society of Jesus in 1992 and was ordained to the priesthood in 2003. He completed hisTertianship in 2014 at StStanislaus College in Girisonta and pronounced his Final Vows in February 2016.
A specialist in interfaith and comparative theological discourse, he completedhis licentiate at the Weston Jesuit School of Theology in 2005 before pursuing doctoral studies at Boston College, where he earned his PhD in Comparative Theology in 2011. He later served as a Visiting Scholar and Postdoctoral Fellow at Loyola Marymount University in California.
From 2014 to 2021, he served as Dean, and then President, of The Wedabhakti Pontifical Faculty of Theology in Yogyakarta. He has also been serving as animator of the Intellectual Apostolate and Research for the Indonesian Jesuit Province since 2018. In 2022, he was appointed President of Sanata Dharma University and has led the institution tostrengthen its commitment to academic excellence, service to humanity, and the promotion of social justice.
Fr Albertus Bagus Laksana
New Provincial of Indonesian Province
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