General Council, Chris Chaplin MSC

Over the coming weeks we will be posting thumbnail sketches of each of the five men appointed to our General Council.

Chris Chaplin MSC

Chris has served a six year term as a General Assistant to Superior General, Abzalon Alvaredo Tovar MSC. Abzalon has asked him to continue for a second term.

Chris is to be First Councillor

Looking back at Chris’s life and ministry, we can see a providential journey of preparation. He is from Adelaide, Henley Beach parish, formerly and MSC parish. He joined the MSC in 1980, studied at YTU, had a pastoral year’s experience in Melbourne’s Yarraville parish before entering the Novitiate in 1983, making profession in 1984. He was a member of the foundation community at Navarre House, Drummoyne, when the student house moved to Sydney in 1986.

Experience as a deacon in Nightcliff parish, Darwin, ordination in 1988, returning to Nightcliff and becoming parish priest. He has had a wide range of appointments over the decades, a member of the travelling religious education team, member of the Provincial Council, some years in Fiji, Director of the Retreat House at Douglas Park, hermit life on the NSW central coast and at Shoreham, Victoria, spiritual director, on the staff of the Heart of Life Centre, qualifications in Breathwork, Reflexology and Certificates in Emotional Release Counselling.

He has been drawing on all this experience in his work on the General Council and especially Formation work in the Asian provinces and regions.

Chris and an Argentinian friend.