Rev. Charles Kelechi Egbulefu C.C.E.

Reverend Charles Kelechi Egbulefu

Assistant Professor, Systematic Theology

Assistant Director of Discipleship Stage

EDUCATION

B.Phil. Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum, 2005
S.T.B. Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum, 2008
S.T.L. Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum, 2010
S.Th.D. Pontifical Urban University, 2014

AREA OF SPECIALIZATION

Dogmatic Theology in general, with special reference to the Systematic Theology of the Church (Ecclesiology), the vision of the Church in Christ as a theandocratic (that is divine-human) and therefore sacramental collectivity, namely as a People of God and a Body of Christ as indicated by the Second Vatican Council as well as that of being a Family of God as indicated by the African Bishops in the First Synod of Africa, and finally, the ecclesiology of St. Bonaventure of Bagnoregio.

BIOGRAPHY

Fr. Charles Kelechi Egbulefu C.C.E was born in Nigeria and was ordained a priest for the religious Congregation of Christ the Emmanuel in 2011. After completing his doctoral studies in dogmatic theology in 2014, he continued in his part-time ministry in the Vatican Sistine Chapel as a Spiritual Chaplain till the Spring of 2015, when he was sent to the Archdiocese of Toronto Canada for parish pastoral mission. Ever since then, he has served in two parishes of the Archdiocese (four years at St. Ignatius Loyola Church Mississauga and two years at Transfiguration of our Lord Church Etobicoke). During the first four years of his pastoral ministry, he taught for two years in the Diaconate Program at the St. Augustine’s Seminary Toronto. Currently, alongside his pastoral work at the Transfiguration of our Lord Parish, Etobicoke, he is teaching the Theology of the Sacraments of the Church in the Bachelors’ Study Program of the St. Augustine’s Seminary Toronto.


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS / SELECTED AREAS OF SERVICE / PASTORAL WORK

Publications

  • The Ecclesiology of Saint Bonaventure in the Second Vatican Council. (2015)

  • The Church as Family of God in the Post Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Ecclesia in Africa. A Systematic and Analytic Comparison and Complementarity of the Image of Family of God with other Images of the Church as requested in n. 63 of Ecclesia in Africa. (2010)

  • The Therapeutic Effects of Listening and Counselling. (2017)

  • Walk by Faith, Walk by Sight: A Theological Exposition, A Manuscript. (2015)

  • Living in the Present Moment, A Homily on Stewardship. (2020).

Areas of Service

  • a) Rites of Christian Initiation Classes for Adults at the Parish, (2015-2021).

  • b)  Spiritual Retreats for Small Groups (2016-2021).

  • c)  The Sacrament of Confirmation Classes for Grade 7 Students at the Parish and at the Schools (2015-2019)