Fr Charles Egbon, MSP

Fr Charles Egbon is a priest of the Missionary Society of St Paul. He holds a first-class degree in Philosophy and a degree in Sacred Theology from the National Missionary Seminary of St Paul, Abuja, Nigeria, an affiliate of the Pontifical Urbaniana University, Rome. He is currently reading for a Master’s degree in Psychology at the University of Wolverhampton.

Before entering seminary, he earned a Bachelor of Technology in Physics (Electronics) from the Federal University of Technology, Akure, and worked as a senior IT professional in Lagos, holding certifications in IBM AIX and HP-UX enterprise solutions. He left a successful career to answer a call to the priesthood and was ordained on 20 June 2015.

He served for seven years in the Diocese of Mzuzu, Malawi, as Parish Priest of Holy Family Parish, Bowe, ministering to more than 30,000 Christians across 87 outstations and founding two schools. On moving to the United Kingdom he served as Director of the Mission Office of the Missionary Society of St Paul and as Assistant Priest of Holy Rosary Parish, Brixton, London.

He now serves as Parish Priest of St John the Evangelist, Caol, Fort William, and St Mary and St Finnan, Glenfinnan, in the Scottish Highlands, where fewer than 100 parishioners remain in his care. What Remains is his first book published under his own name.