RYAN HANNING, PhD
Fellow, St. John Paul II Foundation
Ryan Hanning, PhD, serves as the Executive Vice President of Catholics Come Home and Virtue Media which provides media and educational resources in 11 different languages. He coordinates the outreach for Catholics Come Home and its apostolates and has helped lead over 20 Diocesan campaigns in the US, Canada, and Poland. He has helped expand the Catholics Come Home online presence with over 10 million views, and over 600,000 online followers. Dr. Hanning earned a PhD in Theology from Maryvale Institute in England and has studied at the University of Dallas, Cambridge, and the Jagiellonian, St. John Paul II’s alma mater. In addition to being a Fellow for the Institute of Theology, the St. John Paul II Foundation, and Havard Virtuous Leadership Institute, he has served in non-profit leadership and published books, and articles with Ignatius Press, TAN Publishing, Sword & Spade, The Catechetical Review, Ressourcement, Catholic Rural Life, and Hearth & Field. He has presented at conferences in the US, Mexico, Canada, and Europe and has been featured on EWTN and various national and international podcasts. Ryan serves as a founding editor for Creed & Culture Books, as well as Hearth & Field. He currently homesteads in Tennessee with his beautiful wife Rebecca, and their ten amazing children.
MOST REV. GREGORY L. PARKES
Bishop of St. Petersburg
Bishop Gregory Parkes was born on April 2, 1964, to Ronald and Joan Parkes. He grew up in Massapequa, a town on Long Island, NY, and attended St. Rose of Lima Catholic School. He and his two brothers were altar servers, and their parents were active in parish ministries. He moved to Tampa after graduating from Florida State University and worked in banking until God called him to the priesthood. In addition to a B.A. in Finance, he earned a Sacred Theology degree and an advanced graduate degree in Canon Law from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. He was ordained a priest of the Diocese of Orlando on June 26, 1999 and was appointed to serve as bishop of the Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee in 2012. Pope Francis appointed Bishop Parkes to be shepherd of the Diocese of Saint Petersburg on November 28, 2016, and his Installation Mass was celebrated on January 4, 2017. His younger brother Stephen, also a priest, was appointed Bishop of the Diocese of Savannah on July 8, 2020. Since being named spiritual leader of the Diocese of Saint Petersburg, Bishop Parkes has made it his mission to joyfully and courageously proclaim the Gospel while listening and responding to the needs of the priests and the people of God.