Brian Alan Nunes (born October 26, 1964) is a priest of the Catholic Church who seves as an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
Biography
Early life
Nunes was born in Inglewood, California, the oldest of four children born to immigrant parents from Hong Kong. He attended elementary school at St. Joseph School in Placentia and Servite High School in Anaheim before earning a bachelor's degree in communications from Loyola Marymount University in 1986. He then worked in print journalism for a number of years, including 12 years at Business Wire, where he transitioned into technical support and network administration. Finding this work unsatisfying, he entered St. John's Seminary, earning a bachelor's in philosophy and a master of divinity in 2008. He was ordained a priest on May 31 of the same year.
Priesthood
Nunes' first assignment as a priest was a parochial vicar and administrator of Mary Star of the Sea Church in San Pedro. From 2015 to 2019 he was the priest-secretary of Archbishop José Gómez as well as vice-chancellor, vicar general, and moderator of the curia of the Archdiocese.
Episcopacy
On July 18, 2023, Pope Francis appointed Nunes as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and the titular bishop of Kearney. Archbishop José Gómez consecrated Nunes as a bishop on September 26, 2023, at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.