Rev. Randall Soto
Deceased: 2022-12-21
Diocese: SAN JUAN
CSM Graduation Year: 2003
Fr. Randy Soto, SThD was born in San José, Costa Rica and became an American in 2017. In 1986, he obtained a Bachelor’s in Philosophy at the Seminario Central of San José and a MA in Theology at Saint Joseph’s Seminary of the Archdiocese of New York (Class of 1991). In 1994, he was sent to do Biblical studies at CUA in Washinhttps://dunwoodie.edu/people/fr-randall-soto-stdgton DC and to the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome (94-95). He obtained a Licentiate in Biblical Theology in 1996, as well as his Doctorate in Biblical Theology in 2003. He has been a Professor of Sacred Scripture and Biblical Languages at the Pontifical North American College for the Pontifical Gregorian University and the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome (2017-2022). He has served: as a parish priest; as a Professor of Old and New Testament at the Universidad Católica of Costa Rica and the Seminario Central de San José, Costa Rica (1996-2000 and 2003-2004); as Director of Faith Enculturation and Censor Librorum in the Archdiocese of San José (2003-2004); as Professor for Rensselaer College in the Permanent Diaconate Program of Lafayette-in-Indiana (2004-2006); as Censor Librorum, Formator and Professor of New Testament and Biblical Languages at Kenrick-Glennon Seminary in the Archdiocese of St. Louis, MO (2005-2009 and 2011-2017; as a Professor of New Testament at the Instituto Ciencias Religiosas in Toledo, Spain (2010-2011); as Professor of Dogmatic Theology and Sacred Scripture for the on-line program of Holy Apostles Seminary, CT (2007-2022); as Founder and Editor of three Academic Journals, Theandrika (1986-1994) at the Seminario Central of San José; Vox Christi (2012-2016) at Kenrick-Glennon Seminary in Saint Louis; and Ex Latere Christi (2019- 2022) at the PNAC in Rome. Among many other publications, he worked in the footnotes the Edition of the Biblia de Navarra Popular, edited by MTF in 2007; he recently has published in Rome a Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (2019) and was the editor of the Third Edition of the Manual of Prayers (2021) of the Pontifical North American College in Rome.
