Brother John Rhodes Paige, C.S.C., Ph.D.

Vicar and First Assistant
Congregation of Holy Cross 
Rome, Italy 

In 2004, Brother Paige was elected Vicar and First General Assistant of the Congregation of Holy Cross at the Congregation’s General Chapter in Rome, Italy. Prior to this election, he served as associate professor of education and dean of the School of Education at St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas since 2001. Previously, he served as director and supervisor of Secondary Education Teacher Preparation at St. Edward's University. 

From 1997 to 1999, Brother Paige was a research associate at the Makerre Institute of Social Research, Makerre University, Kampala, Uganda and was also a visiting professsor of social science at Queen of Apostles Philosophy Centre in Jinja, Uganda in 1998-1999. He began his education career in 1968 at Holy Cross High School, Waterbury, Conn. In 1972, he went to Notre Dame High School, West Haven, Conn. where, in 1975, he became principal and chief executive officer. 

He became a member of the formation faculty at the Holy Cross Novitiate in Valatie, N.Y. in 1982 and was named director of novices in 1983. He was also a member of the formation for ministry faculty for the Diocese of Albany (N.Y.) from 1982 through 1989. He was appointed to the faculty and was named president and chief executive officer at Bishop McNamara High School in Forestville, Md. in 1989. The recipient of awards in Connecticut and Maryland, he was a director of the National Association of Religious Brothers from 1989-1994 and served as its president from 1990-1994. He is the author of Preserving Order amid Chaos: The Survival of Schools in Uganda, 1971-1986 (2000). 

Brother Paige made his perpetual profession with the Congregation of Holy Cross, Society of Brothers, Eastern Brothers Province U.S.A. in 1970. Currently, he is a provincial councilor (2003-2006) for the Eastern Brothers Province. 

A 1968 graduate of the University of Notre Dame with a B.S. degree in physics, he received an M.A.L.S. degree in Mathematics from Wesleyan University in 1976 and an M.A. degree in Applied Theology from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, Calif. in 1983. He was awarded the Ph.D. in education policy and leadership from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1998.