Bishop Charles Allieu Matthew Campbell

Bishop Charles Allieu Matthew Campbell, Bishop of Bo, Sierra Leone, was born on 25 January 1961 in Njala, Kori Chiefdom, in Moyamba District, Archdiocese of Freetown and Bo, into a Muslim family. After primary and secondary school, he completed philosophy and theology studies at Saint Paul's Major Seminary in Gbarnga. He was ordained priest in Immaculate Heart parish church in Bo on 9 April 1986. After priestly ordination he held the following offices: 1986-1988, parish vicar in the parishes of Njala, Komboya, Pujehun, and Moyamba; 1988-1989, director of vocations and rector of Saint Augustine Minor Seminary; 1990-1992, higher studies in Nigeria; 1992-1995, pastor of Damballa; 1995-2004, professor at Saint Paul's Major Seminary in Makeni; 2004-2006, religious formation course at Saint Anselm's in England. From 2004 he was spiritual director of Saint Paul's Major Seminary in Freetown.