EUROPE : IRELAND : NEW NUNCIO MONS. CHARLES BROWN


Pope Benedict XVI appoints new Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland | Right Reverend Monsignor Charles John Brown, Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland

Monsignor Charles Brown
IND. CATH. NEWS REPORT: Pope Benedict XVI, has appointed the Right Reverend Monsignor Charles John Brown as the Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland. Monsignor Charles John Brown was born in New York, United States of America, on 13 October 1959. He was ordained priest for the Archdiocese of New York in Saint Patrick's Cathedral on 13 May 1989. He served as curate in the Parish of Saint Brendan, in the Bronx, New York, from 1989 to 1991.

From 1994 Monsignor Brown has been attached to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in Rome. He was appointed Chaplain to His Holiness on 6 May 2000. He was appointed Assistant Secretary to the International Theological Commission in September 2009.

Monsignor Brown holds the following academic degrees: BA in history, University of Notre Dame, Indiana (USA); MA in Theology, Oxford University (England); MA in Medieval Studies, Toronto University (Canada); M.Div., St Joseph's Seminary, New York (USA); STL and STD in Sacramental Theology, Saint Anselm Pontifical Athenaeum (Rome)

Source: Irish Catholic Media Office

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