Staff

• MPhil Theology (University of Oxford, in view 2018)
• MA Communication and Language Arts (University of Ibadan, 2007)
• MA Leadership and Pastoral Care (All Hallows College, DCU, 2011
• BA Philosophy (University of Ibadan, 2005)
• BA Theology (Blackfriars Oxford, for Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, Rome, 2015)

Academic Education:

• A native of Co. Kilkenny, Ireland, John entered the Discalced Carmelite Order in 1963.
• He studied philosophy at the Order’s House close to Oxford and Theology at the Milltown Institute, Dublin.
• After Ordination in 1970, he did further studies at the Alphonsian Academy, Rome.
• On his return, he taught Moral Theology and Spirituality at the Milltown Institute over a period of eighteen years.
• Within the Order, he has served as local Superior, Provincial and General Definitor.
• Currently, he is a member of the Iona Retreat Centre, Termonbacca, Derry, N. Ireland.