fr. Peter Mendonca OP

Fr. Peter Mendonsa, is from Ashoknagar Parish, Mangalore, was born in Pangala Parish Shankerpura in 1967, son of Late Marcel and Cosess Mendonca, 9th of the eleven children, four being Priests and three religious sisters in the family. After the initial education in Shankerpura St. John’s School and Innanje S.V.S High school, he entered the Dominican Order at Ashoknagar, Mangalore, in 1983, and after completing philosophical, graduation and theological studies at Nagpur, was ordained a Priest in the Dominican Order in 1995. He served at Ashoknagar Parish from 1996 to 2000 as a Pastor of the Parish and gained pastoral experiences. From 2001 to 2006 he was in Munich, Germany doing his Doctorate in Pastoral Theology at Ludwig Maximillian University at Munich. After completing the doctorate he was appointed as the Superior of the formation house at Bellur, Mangalore. Then from 2012 he was appointed Novice Master and the Superior of the Novitiate community at Moira, Goa. Since 2006 he has been engaged in teaching as a visiting lecturer in Pastoral Theology in St. Charles’ Seminary, Nagpur, St. Joseph’s Seminary Mangalore (from 2007 to 2013), Prabodhana Institute at Mysore (from 2014), and as a lecturer in Homiletics in St. Charles’ Seminary (from 2006 onwards), He was the superior and parish priest at St. Dominic’s in New Delhi when he was elected Prior Provincial of the Province of India.