Rev Peter Dunn
Title:
Rev
First Name:
Peter
Middle Names:
Clement
Preferred Name:
Surname:
Dunn
Order:
Date of Birth:
Place of Birth:
Wanganui
Country of Birth:
New Zealand
Date of Ordination:
Place of Ordination:
Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Wellington
Country of Ordination:
New Zealand
Ordination Diocese:
Wellington
Seminary:
Holy Cross College, Mosgiel, New Zealand
Date of Death:
Place of Death:
Country of Death:
New Zealand
Date of Burial:
Place of Burial:
Purewa, Auckland
Country of Burial:
New Zealand
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Biographical Notes
Three Wellington Students To Be Ordained, Evening Post, 14 July 1954, p 12, https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19540714.2.112:
Three Wellington students will be among seven from Holy Cross College, Mosgiel, who will be ordained to the priesthood in various centres next week. Two will be ordained at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Hill Street, at 10.30am on Sunday. They are the Rev. Kevin O'Sullivan, son of Mrs. C. Connolly and the late Mr. E. J. O’Sullivan, and the Rev. Peter Dunn, youngest son of Mrs. and the late Mr. S. Dunn, of Oriental Parade.
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The Rev. Peter Dunn was born in Wanganui, and educated at St. Thomas’s Academy, Oamaru, and at Sacred Heart College, Auckland. Like the Rev. O'Sullivan, he read his theological course at Mosgiel and will serve in the Wellington archdiocese The Rev. Dunn has a twin sister who is a Sister of Mercy in the community of St. Mary’s Convent, Hill Street, and a brother, the Rev. Father J.S. Dunn, who is parish priest at Paraparaumu.
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At the ceremony at the Basilica the Archbishop of Wellington (the Most Rev. P.T.B. McKeefry) will be assisted by Monsignor T.F. Connolly, V.G., and the Rev. Father B.E. Tottman. Monsignor J. J. Kelly, of Newtown, and the Rev. Father Dunn will assist the ordinands.