Dermot Patrick Martin Dunne is the current and, by some counts, 35th Dean of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin.
[1] A native of Mallow, Dean Dunne was born in 1959 and educated in philosophy and theology at St Patrick's College Maynooth, was ordained a deacon in 1983 and a priest in 1984,[2] serving his early priestly ministry in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cloyne, Fr.
While studying psychotherapy at the Chiron Centre he met his wife Celia, and he left the ministry, and they married in a Church of England ceremony in 1996.
Having served his title there until 2001, Dean Dunne was appointed incumbent of the Crosspatrick and Carnew Group of parishes in county Wicklow.
[4] Dean Dunne earned a BA from DCU in 2004 and completed an MA in Applied Spirituality[5] at All Hallows College and was awarded his master's degree from Dublin City University.