Charles John Brown
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| Reference style | The Most Reverend |
| Spoken style | Your Excellency |
| Religious style | Monsignor |
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Charles John Brown (born 13 October 1959 in New York City, United States) is an archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church and apostolic nuncio to Albania following his appointment by Pope Francis on 9 March 2017. He has previously served as apostolic nuncio to Ireland and as an official at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
Brown was born in the East Village of Manhattan, near Orchard Street and Chinatown. At that time it was a very Jewish area. When he was growing up in New York in the early 1960s his family "were pretty much the only Gentile family in the apartment block". He is the oldest of six children. When the future archbishop was five, they moved to Ridgewood, a suburb north of New York City. In 1971, when he was 11, his parents moved again to Windham NY in the Catskill Mountains.
His mother’s maiden name was Patricia Murphy and one great grandparent was called O’Callaghan, but Archbishop Brown has had little contact with the Ireland of his maternal ancestors. The "Brown" surname is an anglicisation of the German "Braun."
Brown made the following academic studies: BA (History), University of Notre Dame, MA (Theology), University of Oxford (England), MA (Medieval Studies), University of Toronto, he then entered the seminary and earned an M. Div., Saint Joseph's Seminary, Yonkers (USA), STD (Sacramental Theology), Pontifical University St. Anselmo, Rome.
During his study for the priesthood at Dunwoodie Seminary, Edwin Frederick O'Brien was the rector of the seminary. He was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of New York by Cardinal John Joseph O'Connor on 13 May 1989 in St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York. From 1989 to 1991 he was assistant priest at St. Brendan's Parish in the Bronx, New York City. In 1991, Fr Brown was sent to Rome because Cardinal John O’Connor of New York, who had ordained him, asked him to study for a doctorate in sacramental theology and to go back as soon as possible to become a theology professor at Dunwoodie. But the plan never became a reality. A position opened up at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith because they needed an English speaker. The CDF asked Cardinal O’Connor if he would release Fr Brown from his duties in New York.
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