Monsignor I. Brent Eagen; San Diego Diocese Chancellor

Monsignor I. Brent Eagen, 67, chancellor of the Diocese of San Diego and a trustee and vice president of the University of San Diego. Eagen held many positions in San Diego: director of Catholic Community Services and the Mercy Hospital Foundation while also serving as chaplain of the San Diego Chargers. He had been on the faculty at San Diego College for Men and was prominent in the 1972 merger of that institution and the College for Women into the University of San Diego. Eagen also instituted an All-Faith Service at the university where clergy from various faiths gathered each February. In San Diego on Tuesday of pancreatic cancer.