Dr. Benjamin Fiore, SJ was installed as the college's sixth president on December 3, 2005 at Holy Rosary Cathedral.
Fiore, who began his five-year term as president of Campion College on July 1, 2005, hopes to expand upon the Catholic and Jesuit tradition of education on which the college was built.
"The value of a Jesuit education is found in its effort to develop persons of integrity and responsibility in their faith community, in society, and in the world at large. Campion College has a long tradition of doing just that," said Fiore.
"Among our colleagues at the University of Regina, we enjoy an intellectual environment that challenges presuppositions and encourages students and faculty to grow in wisdom. This is the part of "the good" that falls to us to do as we serve others. If we succeed in our task, we will be shaping leaders in service of the community," Fiore told the congregation.
Fiore entered the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in 1964 after completing a BA in English at Le Moyne, a Jesuit College in Syracuse, New York. He went on to obtain a MA in Classical Languages at Fordham University in 1969. Fiore taught Latin and Greek at Xavier High School in New York until 1971, then spent the next three years studying theology at the Pontificia Universita Gregoriana in Rome. He returned to New York to be ordained a priest on July 14, 1974, and thereafter studied at Yale University until 1982, completing a MA, MPhil, and PhD in Religious Studies. Prior to his appointment at Campion, Fiore was a professor in the Religious Studies department at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York.