Fr. Bruce Wren was born on January 8, 1962, in the small town of Cottonwood, Idaho. After graduating from high school as his class salutatorian in 1980, he attended St. John’s College in Santa Fe, N.M., where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts in 1984.  He received his priestly vocation at the age of 23 and joined the Legion of Christ at the insistence of a good friend, a Jesuit priest.  He began his novitiate in the fall of 1985 in Cheshire, CT, and in the years that followed received degrees in classical humanities, philosophy, and theology in Salamanca, Spain, and Rome, Italy.  He was ordained on January 3, 1996, by the Archbishop of Hartford, Daniel Cronin. He began his priestly ministry as Instructor of Novices in our French-speaking novitiate in Cornwall, Canada, on the border between Ontario and Quebec.

In 1999, he was transferred to the “École Apostolique de l’Immaculée Conception” in France, where he served as Rector of the School and Superior of the Community until 2014.  He received a new assignment to Chicago, where he was serving as the local superior of his community, as well as the chaplain of the Chicago Chapter of the Lumen Institute, chaplain to the Chicago Regnum Christi Men’s section, chaplain to the Catholic Professionals of Illinois, and spiritual director for many religious and lay people.  He also regularly helped at several parishes in the Chicago Diocese and devoted time to the Missionaries of Charity, the Poor Clares, and the Rosary Hill Dominican Sisters. In August of 2022, Fr. Bruce was named local superior of the community of Spalding in Atlanta and as chaplain to the section of Regnum Christi men in Atlanta.