People

Darren teaches theology at the Faculty of Theology, University of St Michael’s College.  His areas of research include religious diversity, Trinitarian theology and the thought of Bernard Lonergan.  Darren is liaison between the Dominican Institute of Toronto and our sponsoring organization, the Dominican Friars of Toronto.  He is involved in all areas of the DIT, especially finances and preaching programs.

Dr. Minlib Dallh is a Dominican friar, a member of the Southern Province of the USA. His research focuses on comparative mysticism, women mystics, and love-mysticism in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. He holds a DPhil from the University of Exeter (UK). His teaching and research interests extend to early Dominican friars’ involvement with Islamic studies and Sufi confreries in Sub-Saharan Africa. His first book is entitled The Sufi and the Friar: A Mystical Encounter of Two Men of God in the Abode of Islam (SUNY Press 2017). His second book is, Sufi Women Mystics: Models of Sanctity, Erudition and Political Leadership (Routledge, 2023). 

Gustave Ineza is a Rwandan Dominican friar currently pursuing doctoral studies at the Regis–St. Michael’s Faculty of Theology at the University of Toronto. Born and raised in Rwanda, he joined the Dominican Order in 2002. His academic formation has taken him across several countries: he studied philosophy in Burundi and theology in South Africa at St. Joseph’s Theological Institute, as well as in the United Kingdom at Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford. From 2014 to 2016, he worked with the Dominican University online (Domuni). Since moving to Canada in 2018, his research has focused on decolonial approaches to the evolution of Christian-Muslim relations in Rwanda, from independence in 1962 to the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. His scholarly and pastoral work is deeply shaped by questions of identity, interreligious dialogue, memory, and coexistence. He currently serves as pastor of Sacré-Cœur Parish, the first Francophone parish in Toronto, and as chaplain to six French Catholic schools.