Fr Stephen arrived in Marylebone in 2022 after ten years working at Oxford University: as Chaplain and Fellow of Exeter College, then as a senior manager in the University administration, and most recently as Chaplain of Mansfield College.

He also served as Associate Priest of St Mary Magdalen Oxford. During this time, he undertook graduate work in the field of Literature and Theology, writing a thesis on Ralph Waldo Emerson, and studied psychoanalytic theory and practice with the British Psychotherapy Foundation.

Stephen grew up in London and Hampshire and read English at Oxford, specialising in medieval languages and literature. A keen musician, he was an alto choral scholar at Magdalen College and conducted The Oxford Chamber Choir. After graduation, he was Warden of the Lincoln diocesan retreat centre, and continued to sing as a lay clerk in the in the cathedral choir. He returned to Oxford to read Theology and train for the priesthood at St Stephen’s House, spending his final year as a visiting seminarian at the Venerable English College in Rome. Stephen was ordained in Lincoln Cathedral in 2009 and served as curate of Market Deeping before taking up his first post in Oxford.

Fr Stephen is a passionate follower of the England Cricket team and an ardent Wagnerite.