2025 RSLN Application

Rome Scholars & Leaders Network

2025 Application Form | 16-19 June 2025
Please Note: You must complete your application in one setting-- that is you cannot start, leave, and begin your application where you left off.

We estimate that it will take 45-60 minutes to fill out this form. We would encourage you to write out your answers in a separate document in case you are unable to finish your application in one sitting.
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Brief Biography (if accepted to RSLN, this will be used in the program) - It should be a minimum of 50 but no more than 150 words.

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Leonardo De Chirico is the pastor of Breccia di Roma, a church that he helped plant in Rome in 2009. Previously, Leonardo planted and pastored an evangelical church in Ferrara, Italy, from 1997 to 2009. He earned degrees in History (University of Bologna), Theology (ETCW, Bridgend, Wales) and Bioethics (University of Padova). His PhD is from King's College (London); it was published as Evangelical Theological Perspectives on Post-Vatican II Roman Catholicism. In 2015, he published A Christian Pocket Guide to Papacy through Christian Focus. He is a lecturer of Historical Theology at Istituto di Formazione Evangelica e Documentazione in Padova, Italy. Additionally, Leonardo is the Director of the Reformanda Initiative, which aims to equip evangelical leaders to better understand and engage with Roman Catholicism, and the leader of the Rome Scholars & Leaders Network (RSN).

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Academic Background
1. Please describe your current academic involvement. If a full-time student, and/or currently employed outside of the academy please indicate.*
2. Please list your degrees. Include: institution, date, level achieved, and main topic focus.*
3. Describe the particular issues and challenges you face in your academic work and ministry.*
Spiritual Life
1. When and how did you make your original decision to trust and follow Jesus?*
2. What are the defining moments of your Christian walk? (i.e. Describe how others have impacted your faith or discuss situations that have caused you to grow.)*
3. What church are you a member of?*
How long have you been a member of this church?*
How are you involved as a leader in your church?*
4. Are you involved in any Christian organisations outside of your church?*
Please list the organisations and provide a brief description of your involvement.
5. How have you sought to communicate the Gospel to others?*
Has apologetics been a factor?*
Please explain how
6. Please describe ways in which you have interacted with Roman Catholics through your academic or ministry work. Do you have any unanswered question regarding Roman Catholicism? If so, what are they?*
7. How would you characterize relations between evangelicals and Roman Catholics in your local context?*
English Fluency
1. Are you fluent in English (verbal and written)?*
2. Have you previously attended an English-only conference?
Please explain when and where
3. Have you previously studied in an English-only context?
Please explain when and where
Rome Scholars & Leaders Network Information
1. How did you hear about the Rome Scholars & Leaders Network?*
2. Please explain your interest in the Rome Scholars & Leaders Network and how you expect it will affect your academic work and/or ministry?*
3. What question(s) on Roman Catholicism would like to have answered at the upcoming RSLN?
5. You are required to submit an original academic paper (a chapter or article you have written) OR text of a lecture/sermon that you have given with your application. Your submission must be written in or translated into English. Please provide the name and a brief summary of your submission here.
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Rome Scholars & Leaders Network Covenant
The Rome Scholars & Leaders Network seeks to create a context for evangelical scholars and leaders to study and evaluate Roman Catholic theology and practice in the heart of Rome. To this end, we require participants to do each of the following priorto arriving in Rome:

Read a selection of pre-assigned materials. We will provide a list of readings shortly after acceptance, along with electronic copies of all articles/chapters. Participants may be required to purchase one or two books.

Complete a collection of writing assignments These assignments will be related to and distributed with the reading materials.

Submit an original academic paper, lecture or sermon If an article, this could be an original article or a chapter that may be a part of a larger work. Ideally, but not necessarily, your submission would relate to Roman Catholic theology or practice, or evangelical theology and practice. This paper mustbe written in or translated into English.

By typing your name in the line below you are covenanting that, if accepted, you will complete all of the above before coming to the RSN.

PLEASE NOTE: YOU MUST CONSENT TO THE ABOVE COVENANT IN ORDER TO BE ACCEPTED TO THE ROME SCHOLARS NETWORK.
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