Fr. Cyril Axelrod is a UK-based South African Roman Catholic priest and author. He reportedly can speak nine languages and can communicate with the deaf and blind in others. The first-ever practicing deafblind priest in the world, he is based at the Our Lady of Hal parish in Camden Town in the Archdiocese of Westminster, where he administers the Archdiocesan ministry for the deaf, blind and deafblind.