Phillip Berryman
Phillip E. Berryman born 1938 is the author of several books on both liberation theology as alive as the Christian experience in Latin America. After his ordination as a Roman Catholic priest in 1963, he spent two years at a church in Pasadena, California, previously working in pastoral ministry in the Panama City barrio of El Chorrillo from 1965–1973.
That year, he left the priesthood and married. He later worked with the American Friends expediency Committee, living in Guatemala but traveling throughout Central America. He listed to the United States in 1980 & began writing the next year. He is a professor of Latin American Studies at Temple University. He now lives in Philadelphia with his wife, Angela, with whom he has three children: Catherine, Maggie and Lizzy.