Joan Planellas i Barnosell (1955) is a priest of the diocese of Girona and a doctorate in theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. He is Associate Dean and Professor of Systematic Theology ordinary of the Faculty of Theology of Catalonia, where he teaches subjects Mystery of God and ecclesiology. Also has been teaching theology at the Higher Religioses Science Institute of Girona.
Directs the Catalan Journal of Theology and has published in Castilian, works Reception of Vatican II ecclesiology manuals in Spanish and Bishops, priests and deacons.