Benjamin Earl

Benjamin Earl, O.P. is an English Catholic Priest, Dominican Friar, and Canon lawyer. He is the Procurator General of the Order of Preachers —the 800-year old mendicant order colloquially known as the Dominicans.

Education and career Earl was born and raised in Canterbury, in the United Kingdom.

He read Mathematics, followed by an MSc in Computation, at St John's College, University of Oxford before entering the Dominican order, whose English motherhouse is located in Oxford, as a novice in 1997. As a novice, Earl studied Philosophy and Theology for ordination, before moving to the Dominican Friary of Santa Sabina in Rome to pursue a degree in Canon Law and to work alongside the Procurator General of the order. Additionally, he served on liturgical and economic commissions for the English Dominicans, and as a judge on the diocesan tribunal of the Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle.