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Fr. Donald J.
Bramble, OP
I was born in Quebec, Canada (1950) and
raised in south-central Los Angeles, attending Daniel Murphy H.S.
(at one time a Dominican high school), where I got to know the
friars. After two years at Cal State College, Los Angeles, I entered
the Dominicans in 1970. I was ordained June 4, 1976, thirty-five
years and one day after my uncle’s ordination (Msgr. Keith Bramble).
My family is an extended Irish Catholic clan, long involved in civil
rights, with roots in California from the 1890’s. My educational
background includes Masters in Divinity (D.S.P.T., 1977) and
theology (1978), as well as a master of psychiatric social work
(University of Utah, 1989).
I have served in Alaska, Utah,
California and Arizona in parishes, Hispanic ministry, campus
ministry, college teaching, retreats, adult education, itinerant
preaching, director of the Dominican Mission Foundation for six
years, and recently as pastor of Holy Family Cathedral, Anchorage,
and Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Anchorage. Currently I am on
a 9 month sabbatical at the Dominican house in Las Vegas, Nevada.
I consider the Dominican
community life an outstanding opportunity to do wonderfully
interesting and diverse ministry in an incredibly diverse field, the
Western United States, with terrific friars in community. My
training as a Dominican has allowed me to take an intelligent
approach to my work, and gives me ample opportunities as a preacher.
The international character of the Order, the men and women, lay and
religious in the Dominican Family, the multitude of provinces, weave
a rich spiritual heritage reaching back to St. Dominic, St.
Catherine of Siena, St. Martin de Porres, and a host of other
greats, who are all our companions on the road to heaven! What
wondrous fellowship we have!
Updated: June 2008
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