Charles John BrownKC*HS (born 13 October 1959) is an American prelate of the Catholic Church who has been serving as an apostolic nuncio since 2012. He is currently the apostolic nuncio to the Philippines. He previously served in the same position in Albania and Ireland. He was consecrated as an archbishop in 2012.
Charles Brown was born on October 13, 1959, in the East Village of Manhattan, then a mostly Jewish neighborhood. He later recalled that his family "were pretty much the only gentile family in the apartment block" as he grew up as the oldest of six children. When he was five, the family moved to Rye, New York, and in 1971 to Windham, New York.[1]
In July 2012, Brown climbed Croagh Patrick (“The Reek”), a Catholic pilgrimage site in County Mayo associated with Saint Patrick. He then celebrated Mass atop the mountain with 12,000 pilgrims.[11] In July 2013, he launched a prayer card for the annual Croagh Patrick pilgrimage, called Reek Sunday.[12]
In an October 2012 interview with the Catholic News Agency, Brown said the 'hundreds of young people' in Ireland who were participating in Eucharistic adoration, praying the rosary, confessing their sins and 'rejoicing in the liberating love of God' represented the future of the Catholic Church in that country.[13]
Brown told the Catholic News Service in June 2014, "You see a renewed enthusiasm among young Catholics in Ireland now". He said that they represented the best in the tradition of the Second Vatican Council of the 1960s: "...communicating the ancient unchanging faith in a new, vibrant and attractive way".[15]
In 2016, Brown climbed Croagh Patrick again for Reek Sunday, this time with 20,000 pilgrims.[16]During Brown's tenure in Ireland, he participated in the appointment of 15 bishops of Irish dioceses.[4]
On February 11, 2022, Brown co-consecrated Archbishop Arnaldo Catalán, the current apostolic nuncio to Rwanda.[21] He also led the closing ceremonies for that jubilee year, officiating the Mass on March 31, 2022, on Limasawa Island, site of the first recorded Mass in the Philippines on March 31, 1521. He later presided over the Mass culminating the Year of Missio Ad Gentes in Cebu on April 24.[22]
↑ Pentin, Edward (28 November 2011). "An American Goes to Dublin". National Catholic Register. Archived from the original on 3 November 2012. Retrieved 1 December 2011.
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