Benjamin Dunwell

Configuration Stage

Seminary: St. Meinrad Seminary
Formation Stage: Configuration (1st Theology)
Birthday: March 14
Home Parish: St. Dominic, Mobile
Favorite Saint: St. Thomas Aquinas
Favorite Spiritual Reading: The Way of Perfection by St. Teresa of Avila
Favorite Activities: Reading, hunting, fishing, playing sports, and lifting weights
If you could have any superpower what would it be? Super speed
Vocation Story: My name is Benjamin Dunwell, and I am beginning my first year of Theology at St. Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology. I am from Mobile, and I attended elementary school at St. Dominic and McGill-Toolen Catholic High School, graduating in 2020. After graduation, I went on to Auburn University studying Computer Engineering for three years. During my time at Auburn, I enjoyed the freedom of college and became less devoted to my Catholic faith. However, Christmas of my Junior year, things really changed in my life when I went with my family to visit my sister for the holidays in Nashville (where she is a Novice with the Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia). It was in Nashville that I heard the call to the priesthood. Over the course of the next semester, thanks to the prayerful support of my friends and family, I learned to listen to this call and decided to apply to seminary. I have now competed my college education and graduated from St. Joseph Seminary College in Covington, LA, and I look forward to another year of seminary at St. Meinrad.