# Event Details

- **Event Name**: An Educating Conversation: Featuring: Bishop Slawomir Szkredka -- "Biblical Commentary as Testimony"
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 24 Jun, 2026 at 06:00 pm – Wed, 24 Jun, 2026 at 08:00 pm
- **Event Description**: June 24, 2026 | Featuring: Bishop Slawomir Szkredka
"Biblical Commentary as Testimony: Nicholas de Lyra and the Vitality of the Biblical Text"

A collaboration with Saint Barbara Parish.

?“When I visited the Mission Archives, they showed me one of their early printed biblical treasures: the Postilla of Nicholas of Lyra. I understand that the lecture series highlights selected artifacts from the library’s collection. My hope is to focus on the art of biblical commentary itself, using Nicholas and his Postilla as a concrete and intriguing example…”

? Location: Santa Bárbara Mission Archive-Library, 2201 Laguna Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93105 
? Cost: $30 public ($25 SBMAL members and Saint Barbara Parish) admission fee to support the work of the Archive-Library
ℹ️ Logistics: RSVP Required | Light Refreshments | Doors at 5:30pm

About the series: Join a select group of those interested in an informative conversation with experts who will first share from a vast store of knowledge, then engage with those present in a lively give & take. 

About our speaker: Bishop Szkredka was born in the town of Czechowice-Dziedzice in southern Poland, less than 50 miles from St. Pope John Paul II’s hometown of Wadowice. He began his studies for the priesthood at Kraków’s Metropolitan Seminary and continued at SS. Cyril & Methodius Seminary in Orchard Lake, Michigan. He was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles in 2002. Following his ordination, Szkredka served as Parochial Vicar at St. Genevieve Church in Panorama City and at St. John the Baptist Church in Baldwin Park, before beginning graduate studies at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome in 2008. He returned to the Los Angeles Archdiocese to serve as a professor and formator at St. John’s Seminary in 2015 and earned his doctorate in Sacred Scripture in 2017. Archbishop Gomez appointed him as Episcopal Vicar for the Santa Barbara Pastoral Region on September 26, 2023 at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. 


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- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 94

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Santa Barbara
- **state**: CA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 2201 Laguna St, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, California 93105
- **lat**: 34.43777
- **long**: -119.71401
- **full address**: 2201 Laguna St, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, California 93105

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is An Educating Conversation: Featuring: Bishop Slawomir Szkredka -- "Biblical Commentary as Testimony" being held?
  - **A:** An Educating Conversation: Featuring: Bishop Slawomir Szkredka -- "Biblical Commentary as Testimony" takes place on Wed, 24 Jun, 2026 at 06:00 pm to Wed, 24 Jun, 2026 at 08:00 pm at 2201 Laguna St, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, California 93105.
- **Q**: Who is organizing An Educating Conversation: Featuring: Bishop Slawomir Szkredka -- "Biblical Commentary as Testimony"?
  - **A:** An Educating Conversation: Featuring: Bishop Slawomir Szkredka -- "Biblical Commentary as Testimony" is organized by Santa Barbara Mission Archive-Library.
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