Rex Fortes is a Catholic priest of the Congregation of the Mission (Vincentians) of the Philippine Province since 2003. He received his Licentiate in Sacred Scriptures (SSL) at the Pontificio Istituto Biblico (Biblicum) in Rome in 2013. He continued his biblical studies at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, finishing his Advanced Master’s and Licentiate in Theology and Religion (STL) in 2016 and Doctorate in Sacred Theology (STD/Ph.D.) in 2022 with a dissertation titled, "The Ethnic Groups in the Fourth Gospel: A Historical-Literary and Social-Scientific Reading of the Dynamics of Identification and Representation within a Contested Ethnicity". Now, he is a resident teaching staff and an administrator of the St. Vincent School of Theology, Quezon City, Philippines.