Auxiliary Bishop Peter Joseph Hundt (2006 -    )

Return to Auxiliary Bishops List

Peter Joseph Hundt was born in Hanover, Ontario on August 26, 1956. He received a Bachelor of Arts in 1978 from St. Jerome’s College, University of Waterloo and then studied at St. Peter’s Seminary in London, Ontario. He was conferred with a Masters of Divinity from the University of Western Ontario in 1981. He was ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Hamilton on May 8, 1982.

Father Hundt served as parochial vicar in the parish of St. Eugene’s in Hamilton from 1982 to 1985. He was then assigned to Rome for further studies and in 1987 was awarded a license in Canon Law from the University of St. Thomas Aquinas, Rome. Upon returning from Rome in 1987, Fr. Hundt served first as Vice-Chancellor of the Diocese of Hamilton for two years before becoming Chancellor in 1990, an office in which he served until 1994. Since 1994, he has been the Pastor of Holy Cross Parish in Georgetown, Ontario.

On February 11, 2006, Fr. Hundt was appointed auxiliary bishop of Toronto. He was ordained Bishop at Christ the King Cathedral in Hamilton on April 25, 2006 and was welcomed into the Archdiocese of Toronto at a Mass on June 21, 2006 at St. Michael’s Cathedral.