Brian Joseph Dunn is the current Roman Catholic Bishop of Antigonish.
Education
Dunn attended Memorial University of Newfoundland for one year before transferring to King"s University College of the University of Western Ontario where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1976. Dunn completed seminary formation at Saint Peter"s Seminary, graduating with a Master of Divinity in 1979. Dunn undertook post-graduate studies and graduated with a Juris Canonici Licentiatus and Juris Canonici Doctor, Juris Civilis Doctor from Saint Paul University in 1990 and 1991 respectively.
He completed a M.Th. at in 2006.
Career
Dunn was ordained a priest in the Diocese of Grand Falls on 28 August 1980, where he served as a Parochial Vicar (Associate Pastor) at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Grand Falls-Windsor from 1980–1985. Father Dunn then served as Pastor of Saint Gabriel"s Parish in Saint Brendan"s from 1985–1988, and then as Pastor of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Grand Falls from 1991–1996. He was subsequently Pastor of Saint Joseph"s Parish in Harbour Breton from 1996–1999, followed by the position of Pastor for both Holy Cross Parish in Holyrood and Saint Peter and Saint Paul Parish in Harbour Main from 1999–2002.
In 2008, Father Dunn was appointed to the Diocese of Sault Sainte Marie as an Auxiliary Bishop, having been consecrated bishop at Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Grand Falls, Newfoundland and Labrador on 9 October.
On 21 November 2009, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Auxiliary Bishop Dunn to be Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Antigonish, as the permanent replacement for the former Bishop Raymond Lahey. Bishop Dunn was installed in a ceremony on 25 January 2010, replacing the Diocese"s temporary Apostolic Administrator, Archbishop Anthony Mancini of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Halifax-Yarmouth, the Metropolitan See of the Province.
He also automatically became Chancellor of Saint Francis Xavier University, since the office of Bishop of Antigonish has historically been linked to Saint Francis Xavier University with the current Bishop always serving as the University"s Chancellor.
Membership
Father Dunn served the Diocese of Grand Falls as Vice-Chancellor (1980–1996), Chancellor (1996–2008), Member of the College of Consultors (1991–2002), Bishop"s Canonical Advisor (1990–2008), Judge for the Marriage Tribunal (1990–2008), and Associate Judicial Vicar of the Marriage Tribunal (2002–2008).