Brendan Purcell

Brendan Purcell entered the seminary in 1960 and was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Dublin in 1967. He did his BA at University College Dublin and was sent to study theology at the Lateran University in Rome. He returned to UCD and taught in the Philosophy department for nearly forty years. He also did a PhD in psychology at the University of Leuven, on the theory of human relationships. He retired from UCD in 2008, but holds a Senior Lecturer position on the Emeritus Faculty.

He is a Board Member of VoegelinView, an Adjunct Professor in Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame in Sydney, and has been an assistant priest at St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney, since 2010.