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Archdeacons Of Malta
The archdeacons in the Diocese in Europe are senior clergy of the Church of England Diocese in Europe. They each have responsibility over their own archdeaconry, of which there are currently seven, each of which is composed of one or more deaneries, which are composed in turn of chaplaincies (as opposed to the parishes of the mainland and Manx dioceses). They share this task with running a local church in their area, although the Diocese in Europe was (as of 2012) working towards a new system whereby there would be four full-time archdeacons instead. Colin Williams became a full-time Archdeacon for both the Eastern archdeaconry and that of Germany and Northern Europe ("Archdeacon of Europe") in September 2015, based in Frankfurt, Germany; The current roles of archdeacons are set down in the diocese's 1995 constitution. Archdeacons of Gibraltar The archdeaconry covers the Western Mediterranean, including Andorra, Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Madeira and the Balearic and Canary Islan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Church Of England
The Church of England (C of E) is the State religion#State churches, established List of Christian denominations, Christian church in England and the Crown Dependencies. It is the mother church of the Anglicanism, Anglican Christian tradition, tradition, with foundational doctrines being contained in the ''Thirty-nine Articles'' and ''The Books of Homilies''. The Church traces its history to the Christian hierarchy recorded as existing in the Roman Britain, Roman province of Britain by the 3rd century and to the 6th-century Gregorian mission to Kingdom of Kent, Kent led by Augustine of Canterbury. Its members are called ''Anglicans''. In 1534, the Church of England renounced the authority of the Papacy under the direction of Henry VIII, beginning the English Reformation. The guiding theologian that shaped Anglican doctrine was the Reformer Thomas Cranmer, who developed the Church of England's liturgical text, the ''Book of Common Prayer''. Papal authority was Second Statute of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Pina Cabral
Daniel Pereira dos Santos de Pina Cabral (Vila Nova de Gaia, 27 January 1924 – Porto, 23 June 2008) was a Portuguese Anglican bishop. He was the ninth Bishop of Lebombo, Mozambique, from 1968 to 1976.''Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76'' London: Oxford University Press, 1976 He was educated at the University of Lisbon The University of Lisbon (ULisboa; ) is a public university, public research university in Lisbon, and Portugal's largest university. It was founded in 1911, but the university's present structure dates to the 2013 merger of the former Universit ... and ordained in 1949. Notes External links Texts on Bishop Daniel Pina Cabral in the website of the Lusitanian Church (Portuguese) 1923 births 2008 deaths Portuguese Anglicans University of Lisbon alumni Anglican archdeacons in Africa 20th-century Anglican bishops in Africa Anglican bishops of Lebombo People from Vila Nova de Gaia Portuguese expatriates in Mozambique {{Ang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Cleugh
John Cleugh, D.D. (26 March 1793 – 25 March 1881) was an English Anglican priest who was Archdeacon of Malta from 1865 until his death. Biography Cleugh was born in Islington and was educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He was ordained priest on 25 May 1823 at the Chapel Royal of St James's Palace by William Howley Bishop of London. He then became Chaplain to the Anglican community in Malta serving from 1824 until 1865. Between 1865 and 1881, he was Archdeacon of Malta. He also served as the first chancellor of St Paul's Pro-Cathedral, Valletta between 1844 and 1877. He died on 25 March 1881 in Valletta, Malta Malta, officially the Republic of Malta, is an island country in Southern Europe located in the Mediterranean Sea, between Sicily and North Africa. It consists of an archipelago south of Italy, east of Tunisia, and north of Libya. The two .... References Clergy from London People from Islington (district) 1793 births 1881 deaths 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Le Mesurier (Archdeacon Of Malta)
(John) Thomas (Howe) Le Mesurier (18 August 1785 – 29 September 1864) was an Anglican priest in the 19th century. Le Mesurier was born in Hackney, educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, became a chaplain to the forces In physics, a force is an influence that can cause an object to change its velocity unless counterbalanced by other forces. In mechanics, force makes ideas like 'pushing' or 'pulling' mathematically precise. Because the magnitude and directi ... in Malta and was appointed archdeacon of that island in 1834. Notes Archdeacons in the Diocese in Europe People from Hackney Central 1785 births Alumni of Brasenose College, Oxford 1864 deaths 19th-century Maltese Anglican priests Archdeacons of Malta {{ChurchofEngland-archdeacon-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Cecil Bisshopp, 10th Baronet
The Bishopp Baronetcy, of Parham in the County of Sussex, was a baronetcy in the Baronetage of England. From around 1780 the name was sometimes also spelled Bisshopp. It was created 24 July 1620 for Sir Thomas Bishopp who had previously represented Gatton in Parliament. He was by then almost 70 years old and who had earlier been created a knight by King James I on 7 May 1603 at Theobalds, shortly after James's accession to the throne. Thomas Bishopp was the son of Thomas Bishopp and Elizabeth Belknap, heir and daughter of Sir Edward Belknap, who was active in the service of the English crown, both on the battlefield and as a court official. The second Baronet sat as Member of Parliament for Steyning and Bramber. The fourth Baronet was Member of Parliament for Bramber. The sixth Baronet represented Penrhyn and Boroughbridge in Parliament. The eighth Baronet was Member of Parliament for New Shoreham. In 1815 the abeyance of the ancient Barony of Zouche was terminated in his f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Paul's Pro-Cathedral
St Paul's Pro-Cathedral ( Malti: ''Il-Pro-Katridral ta' San Pawl''), officially The Pro-Cathedral and Collegiate Church of Saint Paul, is an Anglican pro-cathedral of the Diocese in Europe situated in Independence Square, Valletta, Malta. A "pro-cathedral" is a church with cathedral status though not being the main cathedral. It is one of three cathedrals of the Anglican Diocese of Gibraltar in Europe. Origin and construction The cathedral was commissioned by the Dowager Queen Adelaide during a visit to Malta in the 19th century when she found out that there was no place of Anglican worship on the island. Prior to this Anglican services were held in a room in the Grand Master's Palace. Built on the site of the Auberge d'Allemagne (the conventual home of the German Knights Hospitaller), the cathedral was designed by William Scamp and was built between 1839 and 1844. Queen Adelaide laid the foundation stone on 20 March 1839 and her banner hangs above the choir stalls. The origi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Waller (priest)
David James Waller (born 9 November 1958) is a British Anglican priest who has been Archdeacon of Gibraltar and of Italy and Malta, in the Diocese in Europe since 14 January 2020. Waller was educated at Whitelands College, Ripon College Cuddeson and ordained in 1988. He also attended Roehampton Institute (BA, 1985), King's College London (MA, 1995), Heythrop College, University of London (MTh, 2002) and Sarum College (MA, 2016). After a curacy at Tettenhall Regis he was Chaplain at the University of Greenwich from 1992 to 1997. He was Priest in charge at St Matthew, Yiewsley, from 1997 to 2001; and Team Rector of Plymstock Plymstock is a commuter suburb of Plymouth and former civil parish in the English county of Devon. Geography Situated on the east bank of the River Plym, Plymstock is geographically and historically part of the South Hams. It comprises the ... from 2001 to 2012. He was Chaplain at St Philip and St James, Palma de Mallorca from 2012 to 2019. Refere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoff Johnston
Geoffrey Stanley Johnston (called Geoff; 7 November 1944 - 9 March 2025) was a Church of England priest serving as Archdeacon of Gibraltar, in the Diocese in Europe. Education and training Born in 1944, Johnston entered Kelham Theological College in 1964, beginning to train for the priesthood at age 20. He subsequently gained a Certificate in Education (CertEd) from Birmingham University in 1978 and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Aston University in 1981. Ministry He was ordained in the Church of England: made a deacon in Advent 1968 (22 December) by Richard Clitherow, Bishop of Stafford, at St Luke's Church, Blakenhall and ordained a priest the following Advent (19 December 1969), by William Parker, Bishop of Shrewsbury, at St Matthew's Church, Walsall. He served his first curacy at Blakenall Heath (in Walsall, Staffordshire) until 1972, when he went for a year to serve St Buryan with St Levan and Sennan (at Land's End, Cornwall), before returning to Blake ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spain
Spain, or the Kingdom of Spain, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe with territories in North Africa. Featuring the Punta de Tarifa, southernmost point of continental Europe, it is the largest country in Southern Europe and the fourth-most populous European Union member state. Spanning across the majority of the Iberian Peninsula, its territory also includes the Canary Islands, in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean, the Balearic Islands, in the Western Mediterranean Sea, and the Autonomous communities of Spain#Autonomous cities, autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla, in mainland Africa. Peninsular Spain is bordered to the north by France, Andorra, and the Bay of Biscay; to the east and south by the Mediterranean Sea and Gibraltar; and to the west by Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean. Spain's capital and List of largest cities in Spain, largest city is Madrid, and other major List of metropolitan areas in Spain, urban areas include Barcelona, Valencia, Seville, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Almuñécar
Almuñécar () is a Spanish city and municipalities of Spain, municipality located in the southwestern part of the comarcas of Spain, comarca of the Costa Granadina, in the province of Granada. It is located on the shores of the Mediterranean sea and borders the Granadin municipalities of Otívar, Jete, Granada, Jete, Ítrabo and Salobreña, and with the Malagueño municipality of Nerja. The Verde river runs through its Municipal territory, territory. The municipality of sexitano includes the population centers of Almuñécar —municipal capital—, La Herradura, Velilla-Taramay, Torrecuevas, Río Seco, El Rescate and El Cerval. Since 1975, the town has become one of the most important tourist towns in Granada province and on the Costa Granadina; it has good transport connections and a football (soccer) stadium. Almuñécar is an important setting in Laurie Lee's account of the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in ''As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning'', and referred to as "Cas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nerja
Nerja () is a municipality on the Costa del Sol in the province of Málaga in the autonomous community of Andalusia in southern Spain. It is part of the comarca of La Axarquía. It is on the country's southern Mediterranean coast, about east of Málaga. Under Islamic rule, its name was ''Narixa'', which means "abundant source", and is the origin of the current name. History Nerja has a long history, evidenced by the primitive paintings found in its famous Nerja caves, discovered in 1959. These caves are now believed to be just one entrance to a linked series of sinkholes stretching many miles into the mountains between Nerja and Granada, and which may yet prove to be one of the most extensive unexplored systems in Europe. Visitors to the caves will be able to view the remains of one of the ancient inhabitants of Nerja. The Romans built three settlements here, including ''Detunda'', of which now large remains can be seen. The area was later taken over by the Arabs in the earl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Sutch (priest)
David Sutch (born 27 August 1947) was Archdeacon of Gibraltar from 2008 until 2013. Sutch was educated at King's College London and ordained in 1971. After a curacy at Hartcliffe he held incumbencies in Dorcan, Alveston, Yate and Cainscross. From 2007 to 2013 he was Chaplain on the Costa del Sol. He was also with the Royal Army Chaplains Department The Royal Army Chaplains' Department (RAChD) is an all-officer department that provides ordained clergy to minister to the British Army. History The Army Chaplains' Department (AChD) was formed by Royal Warrant of 23 September 1796; until the ... from 1980 to 2003.‘SUTCH, Ven. (Christopher) David’, Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016; online edn, Nov 201accessed 27 Jan 2017/ref> References Archdeacons of Gibraltar Royal Army Chaplains' Department officers Alumni of King's College London 1947 births Living people Clergy from Ox ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
