Rev Jean-Daniel Ó Donncada
(zhawn-danyell oh dunn uh)
Rev. Jean-Daniel Ó Donncada is the National Pastor for Canada for the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the United States and Canada . Pastor Jean-Daniel studied at Harvard, Yale, and Université de Montréal. His academic work has focused on how religious communities can best support children, leading to his writings being published in an anthology of essays, Child Honouring, edited by Raffi with a foreword by the Dalai Lama.
He is often a workshop leader and featured speaker on children’s and youth ministry and pastoral care of neurodiverse children across North America. Most recently, he has been an ecumenical chaplain at McGill University and an interfaith hospital chaplain. He has served churches from California to Connecticut to Québec for the last 20 years. Jean-Daniel is particularly passionate about children’s and youth ministry, ecumenical cooperation, and multilingual ministry