Fr Brendan Callanan
Fr Brendan Callanan, CSsR has been appointed the new administrator of St Joseph’s Church in Dundalk.
Fr Brendan was ordained a Redemptorist priest in 1972 before departing for Brazil, where he worked in a parish with the Formation of Young Redemptorists until 1993.
He then returned to Ireland and was Provincial from then until 1999. He lived in Clonard Monastery from 2000 to 2002 before returning to Brazil in August 2002.
He did parish work there and in January 2007 went to Suriname to work with Redemptorists from other provinces until August 2011.
He work in Brazil again from 2011 to January of this year but will now take up residence in St Joseph’s on the Alphonsus Road.
Fr Callanan will work alongside Fr Michael J Cusack, CSsR, who last month was reappointed as Superior of St Joseph’s for the next four years.
