Fr Bernard was educated at St Ignatius College, Stamford Hill, London, and, after completing his Ordinary Level education in 1959, joined St Joseph’s Missionary Society to train for the priesthood.   He spent a year in Durham and a year in Formby, completing his A Level education, after which, in 1961, he proceeded to the Mill Hill College in Roosendaal, The Netherlands, where he studied Philosophy.   In 1963, he returned to London to study  Theology in St.Joseph’s College, Mill Hill and was ordained priest on July 1^st 1967, in his home  parish of St.Peter-in-Chains, North London.

On December 8^th 1967, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, Fr Bernard traveled by ship to his first appointment in Uganda and arrived three weeks later in Mombasa. From there, he took a train arriving in Tororo, Uganda on 1^st January 1968. A week later he traveled once more to the village of Toroma where he began his missionary ministry. 

In 1994, Fr Bernard returned to the UK where he was part of the Formation Staff at Mill Hill and taught at the Missionary Institute, London. Thereafter, he was assigned to other key positions, culminating in his election as Vicar General of the Mill Hill Society in July 2000. 

Fr Bernard is now back in Uganda, working in the northern Diocese of Kotido. With the help of our supporters and volunteers, he continues to oversee the various  SPICMA projects in Uganda