Fr. Andrew Youman is professor of philosophy and biblical languages at John Paul the Great Catholic University in Escondido, California.
Fr. Andrew served as rector of the Seminary of Mar Abba the Great, the seminary of the Chaldean Catholic Diocese of St. Peter the Apostle, until 2016. He was granted the mandatum by then-Bishop Robert Brom of San Diego, as an ecclesial recognition of Fr. Andrew’s posture and commitment to teach always in communion with the Church. Fr. Andrew is a translator of Aramaic and is the translator/editor of the Emmanuel prayer book, which contains English translations of Chaldean liturgical prayers. He is the co-author of Introductory Chaldean and Chaldean Grammar and the author of Perpetual Jubilee: Meditations on the Chaldean Liturgical Year.
Fr. Andrew earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit in 2001 and a master’s degree in philosophy and theology from the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, with honors for his thesis, “The Mesopotamian School and Theodore of Mopsuestia.”