John W. O'Malley
John William O'Malley (June 11, 1927 – September 11, 2022) was an American academic, Catholic historian, and Jesuit priest. He was a University Professor at Georgetown University, housed in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies. O'Malley was a widely published expert on the religious history of Early Modern Europe, with specialities on the Council of Trent, the Second Vatican Council, and the First Vatican Council. Personal life O'Malley was born in Tiltonsville, Ohio, in 1927. At age 18, he joined the Society of Jesus, and later earned a PhD in history from Harvard University. He died at age 95 on September 11, 2022, and is buried in the Jesuit Cemetery on the campus of Georgetown University. Career He was a member of the faculty at the University of Detroit from 1965 and of the Weston Jesuit School of Theology at Cambridge, Massachusetts from 1979, before becoming a "university professor" at Georgetown University. Among O'Malley's best-known works are The First Jesuits (Harvard University Press, 1993), translated into 12 languages, and What Happened at Vatican II (Harvard University Press, 2008), as well as The Jesuits. A History from Ignatius to the Present (Roman and Littlefield Publishers, Lanham 2014). Awards and honors