SPEAKER BIO

Patrick Madrid is the publisher of Envoy Magazine, a journal of contemporary Catholic thought. Since its inception in 1996, the Envoy team has garnered numerous journalism awards, including several first-place awards in the magazine-of-the-year “General Excellence” category from the Catholic Press Association. He also serves as director of the Envoy Institute of Belmont Abbey College.

Patrick is the author of twelve books on Catholic themes including, Pope Fiction, Search and Rescue, Does the Bible Really Say That?, and the forthcoming 150 Bible Verses Every Catholic Should Know. He edited and co-authored the acclaimed multi-volume Surprised by Truth series (with over 400,000 combined copies in print in English and Spanish), and he has published numerous popular articles on Scripture, Church history, patristics, apologetics, and evangelization in various Catholic periodicals.

Active in apologetics since 1987, he served as vice president of Catholic Answers for eight years (1988 through 1995) and helped co-found that apostolate's flagship magazine, This Rock, in January of 1990.

Patrick is a cradle-Catholic, not a convert. By God's grace, he was raised in the Catholic Faith and has been a practicing Catholic his entire life.

Growing up in Southern California, he attended grammar school at the Mission San Juan Capistrano parish school, where for years he served as an altar boy for the parish's daily Traditional Latin Mass in the famed Serra Chapel. Ever since his boyhood, Patrick has loved the Traditional Latin Mass.

Patrick earned a bachelor of science degree in business from the University of Phoenix and a bachelor of philosophy degree (B.Phil.) from the Pontifical College Josephinum in Columbus, Ohio, where he is completing a master's degree in theology. He has also done graduate studies in theology at the University of Dallas.

He is the host of four EWTN television series, including “Pope Fiction” and “Search & Rescue,” and he hosts the Thursday edition of EWTN Radio's “Open Line” broadcast, heard on approximately 118 AM & FM stations across the United States, as well as on the Sirius Satellite Radio Network.

He serves on the board of trustees of the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley, CA, and on the board of directors of St. Gabriel Catholic Radio, in Columbus, OH. In 2007, he also authored all the original website content for CatholicsComeHome.org.

Patrick has conducted hundreds of seminars on Catholic themes, in English and Spanish, at parishes and universities across the United States, as well as throughout Europe, Canada, Latin America, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand.

He is a regular presenter at Franciscan University of Steubenville’s “Defending the Faith” summer conferences and has been a guest lecturer in theology at Christendom College in their “Major Speakers” program.

Patrick is also a veteran of a dozen formal, public debates with Protestant ministers, Mormon leaders, and other non-Catholic spokesmen.

Cardinal Edward Egan, Archbishop of New York, recently commented on the effectiveness of Patrick's approach to apologetics saying, “How do you bring a friend or relative back into the Church? First you pray. Then, you follow Patrick Madrid's advice in [his book] Search and Rescue.”

Patrick and his wife Nancy have been married for 27 years and have been blessed with eleven healthy and happy children and five grandchildren (who are also happy and healthy).

Their most important goal as a couple is to one day hear the Lord Jesus say to them and their children, “Well done, good and faithful servants; you have been faithful over a little . . . now enter into the joy of your master” (Matt. 25:21).

Contact him at patrick at surprisedbytruth dot com.

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Enjoying the presence of his five lovely daughters on Father's Day.