John Charles Dunne

JOHN CHARLES DUNNE

Born : October 30, 1937
Deceased :

Auxiliary Bishop of Rockville Centre, 1988-2013; Titular Bishop of Abercornia

Origin/meaning

The silver cross on the blue shield is used to honor St. Helen, who traditionally was the one who discovered the cross of Christ and who is the baptismal patron of Bishop-elect Dunne's late mother. The shape of the cross is taken from the arms of County Mayo, Ireland, to signify the bishop's Irish heritage and additionally to represent that both of his parents came from County Mayo to the United States.

The two gold eagles above the crosspiece are taken directly from a (British, non related) Dunne family arms. These two eagles signify that Bishop Dunne bas the Dunne heritage on both sides of his family: his mother's name was Helen Dunne before she married his father, Mark Dunne.

Bishop Dunne's motto is "God is Love," taken from the first Epistle of St. John (John 4:16). His usage of this phrase is to convey the message that "no one has ever seen God.

The achievement is completed with the heraldic insignia of a prelate of the rank of bishop by instruction of the Holy See, of March 1969, confirmed in March 2001.

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