The Society for the Maintenance of the Faith is pleased to announce the appointment of the Revd Canon Charles Card-Reynolds, currently Vicar of St Bartholomew Stamford Hill in the Diocese of London, to be Vicar of All Saints with St Columb Notting Hill in the same diocese. The appointment was made in consultation with the Bishop of Fulham and the parish representatives, and is made subject to the usual safeguarding procedures. It is hoped that Fr Charles will be instituted and inducted at a service in January 2025.
Biographical note
Fr Charles Card-Reynolds grew up close to the Essex coast. While at university, he frequently stayed with the monks of the Society of St John the Evangelist at their priories in Oxford and London. He was admitted to their Fellowship in 2001 after a time as a postulant: their charism of missionary priesthood has shaped his own ministry. Fr Charles holds degrees in Theology, Education and most recently, History of Art, where he specialized in historic black British portraiture. He was a seminarian at S. Stephen’s House (1996-98), and later served the college for twelve years on the governing council. Since 2012 he has been the Commissary for the Diocese of the Windward Islands and in 2022 he became a canon of the Diocese of Cape Town; greatly appreciating his connections with the Provinces of the West Indies and South Africa. He served his title in the parishes of The Most Holy Trinity (an SMF parish) and S. Mark in Reading, and for the last eighteen years has had the great pleasure and honour of being the vicar of S. Bartholomew on Stamford Hill. In the Stepney Area he has worked as Assistant Area Director of Ordinands. Fr Charles collects C20th studio pottery and antique prints, adores cheese and knows his way around a tot of rum.
