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Monsignor Brian Edwin Ferme

Monsignor Brian Edwin Charles Butterley Ferme (born 24 April, 1955 in Port Pirie, South Australia) is an Australian Roman Catholic Priest, canon lawyer, and official of the Roman curia.

Life Brian Edwin Charles Butterley Ferme was born in 1955 in Port Pirie, South Australia, the second child of Edwin Ronald Ferme (b. Port Pirie 1911 d. Port Pirie 1970) and May Cecilia Butterley Ferme (b. Port Pirie 1918 d. Port Pirie 1996). He is brother to John Ferme and Pauline Ferme. The Ferme family, of distant Scottish origin, have a long association with Port Pirie migrating there from New Zealand in the mid-nineteenth century.

Brian Ferme was educated at Salesian College in Port Pirie. He received his BA from Monash University, Melbourne and also studied at the Catholic Theological College, Melbourne. He was ordained on 2 February 1980 as a priest of the Salesians of Saint John Bosco by Port Pirie's Bishop Bryan Gallagher.[1]

Brian Ferme was sent by the Salesians to complete a licentiate in canon law at the Salesian Pontifical University, Rome, with initial further studies at the University of Oxford. These studies were interrupted by a return to the Salesian provincial headquarters in Ascot Vale, Melbourne, Australia. He returned to Oxford in 1987 to complete a D.Phil in medieval History on the Provinciale of William Lyndwood, during which period he also served as assistant chaplain at the Oxford University Catholic Chaplaincy. On receiving his doctorate he left the Salesian Order and in January 1993 was incardinated into the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portsmouth, England, though he did not serve there. This incardination at Portsmouth has repeatedly, but incorrectly, led to him being referred to as an English priest.[2] [3]

Brian Ferme served for a brief period as bursar of Campion Hall, Oxford before returning to Rome to teach canon law at the Pontifical Gregorian University. In 1994 he was named a Monsignor. In 2000 he was named dean of the canon law faculty of the Pontifical Lateran University. In 2003 he was appointed to the faculty of canon law at the Catholic University of America in Washington DC. The following year, Cardinal Angelo Scola, the Patriarch of Venice, appointed Monsignor Ferme as the Rector of the new Studium Generale Marcianum and a canon of St Mark's Basilica.

On 22 March 2014 Monsignor Ferme was appointed Secretary of the Council of the Economy (Consilium de Rebus Oeconomicis) by the Holy See, a position he still holds.

Publications Monsignor Brian Ferme is the author of several publications, all in the field of Canon Law:

1. "Testamentary procedure with special reference to the executrix" Archer, Rowena E. • Ferme, Brian Edwin. (1989) - In: Reading medieval studies vol. 15 (1989) pp. 3-34.

Also published as:

2. "Testamentary Procedure with Special Reference to the Executrix". Archer, Rowena E. • Ferme, Brian Edwin. (1989) - In: Medieval women in Southern England pp. 3-34.

3. Canon law in late medieval England: A study of William Lynwood's Provinciale with particular reference to testamentary Law. Ferme, Brian Edwin. - Roma (1996).

4. Introduzione allo studio delle fonti dell'utrumque ius. Falchi, Gian Luigi • Ferme, Brian Edwin. - Città del Vaticano (2006).

5. Introduction to the History of the Sources of Canon Law: The Ancient Law up to the Decretum of Gratian. Ferme, Brian Edwin. - Montréal (2007).

6. "Dal Decretum Gratiani al Lateranense IV: origine dell'obbligo della confessione". Ferme, Brian Edwin. (2013) - In: La penitenza tra Gregorio VII e Bonifacio VIII. Teologia - pastorale - istituzioni pp. 127-156.

7. "The Roman Primacy and the Canonical Collections of the First Millennium". Ferme, Brian Edwin. (2013) - In: Studi Agostino Marchetto pp. 137-164.

8. "Quinque compilationes antiquae: a turning point in the history of canon law". Ferme, Brian Edwin. (2005) - In: Miscellanea Velasio De Paolis pp. 41-55.

9. "Chiesa e papato nella storia e nel diritto". Ferme, Brian Edwin. (2004) - In: Apollinaris vol. 77 (2004) pp. 887-891.

10. "The magisterium and the medieval canonists". Ferme, Brian Edwin. (2002) - In: Miscellanea Ottorino Pasquato pp. 397-408.

11. "The tendency to Roman law in English fifteenth century law: Lyndwood's Provinciale re-examined". Ferme, Brian Edwin. (1997) - In: Proceedings of the Ninth International Congress of Medieval Canon Law Munich pp. 661-674.