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Cross Of St Augustine
The Cross of St Augustine is an award of merit in the gift of the Archbishop of Canterbury. It is awarded to members of the Anglican Communion who have made significant contributions to the life of the worldwide Communion, or to a particular autonomous church within Anglicanism. It is also awarded to members of other traditions who have made a conspicuous contribution to ecumenism. It is the second highest international award for service within Anglicanism. History The Award was created in 1965 by Archbishop Michael Ramsey. There is no limit on the number of recipients, although the Cross is said to be awarded to "a small number of clergy and lay people each year". 2008 is an example of a year in which the number of awards was larger, with 13 Crosses awarded at a standard presentation ceremony and a further 8 awarded at a special presentation for key organisers of the 2008 Lambeth Conference. Grades of award There are three grades of the Cross of St Augustine - bronze, silver, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archbishop Of Canterbury
The archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and a principal leader of the Church of England, the Primus inter pares, ceremonial head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the bishop of the diocese of Canterbury. The first archbishop was Augustine of Canterbury, the "Apostle to the English", who was sent to England by Pope Gregory the Great and arrived in 597. The position is currently vacant following the resignation of Justin Welby, the List of Archbishops of Canterbury, 105th archbishop, effective 7 January 2025.Orders in Council, 18 December 2024, page 42 During the vacancy the official functions of the office have been delegated primarily to the archbishop of York, Stephen Cottrell, with some also undertaken by the bishop of London, Sarah Mullally, and the bishop of Dover, Rose Hudson-Wilkin. From Augustine until William Warham, the archbishops of Canterbury were in full communion with the Catholic Church and usually received the pallium from the pope. During the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Colquhoun
Frank Colquhoun (28 October 1909 – 3 April 1997) was a British Church of England priest and author. Life and career Born in 1909 into a clergy family, Frank Colquhoun was educated at Warwick School and Durham University. A member of University College, he graduated LTh (1932), BA (1933), and later received an MA (1937). After his ordination in 1933, he served as curate at St Faith, Maidstone and then Christ Church, New Malden (1935–1939). He became vicar of St Michael and All Angels, Blackheath in 1939, a post he held until 1946. During the Second World War, his church was heavily affected by air raids. In 1944, he became one of the first faculty members of the newly-founded London Bible College, alongside Ernest Kevan and L.F.E. Wilkinson (later principal of Oak Hill College). After leaving Blackheath, Colquhoun was appointed as the Editorial Secretary for the National Church League, an evangelical Anglican association that was a forerunner of Church Society. As par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bishop Of Mauritius
The Bishop of Mauritius () has been the Ordinary of the Anglican Church in Mauritius in the Indian Ocean since its inception in 1854. The current bishop is Joseph Sténio André. Bishops *1854 Vincent William Ryan *1869 Thomas Goodwin Hatchard *1870 Henry Constantine Huxtable *1872 Peter Sorenson Royston *1891 William Walsh *1898–1903 Walter Ruthven Pym *1904 Francis Gregory *1919 Cyril Golding-Bird *1931 Hugh Otter-Barry *1959 Alan Rogers *1966 Edwin Curtis *1976 Ghislain Emmanuel *1978 Trevor Huddleston *1984 Rex Donat *2001 Ian Ernest *2020 Joseph Sténio André References Mauritius Mauritius, officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island country in the Indian Ocean, about off the southeastern coast of East Africa, east of Madagascar. It includes the main island (also called Mauritius), as well as Rodrigues, Ag ... 1854 establishments in the British Empire {{Anglican-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Church Of The Province Of The Indian Ocean
The Church of the Province of the Indian Ocean is a province (Anglican), province of the Anglican Communion. It covers the islands of Madagascar, Mauritius and the Seychelles. The current Archbishop and Primate (bishop), Primate is Gilbert Rateloson Rakotondravelo, Bishop of Fianarantsoa. The Church of the Province of the Indian Ocean is a member of the Global South (Anglican), Global South and the Global Anglican Future Conference, and has been involved in the Anglican realignment. Archbishop James Wong (bishop), James Wong attended Global Anglican Future Conference, GAFCON III, in Jerusalem, on 17–22 June 2018, and GAFCON IV in Kigali, on 17-21 April 2023. The province was represented at the event by a ten-member delegation, six from Madagascar and four from the Seychelles. Dioceses Madagascan dioceses Diocese of Antananarivo The Bishop of Antananarivo has been the Ordinary (officer), Ordinary of the Anglican Church in Antananarivo in the Indian Ocean since the diocese's e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Ernest
Gerald James Ian Ernest (born 30 August 1954) is a Mauritian Anglican bishop. In 2001 he was consecrated as the 15th bishop of Mauritius. From 2006 to 2017 he was archbishop of the Province of the Indian Ocean. From October 2019 to January 2025, he was the Archbishop of Canterbury's Personal Representative to the Holy See and Director of the Anglican Centre in Rome. Ernest was educated at the University of Madras and ordained an Anglican priest in 1985. In 2008 he was awarded the Cross of St Augustine, the second-highest international award for outstanding service to the Anglican Communion, by the Archbishop of Canterbury The archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and a principal leader of the Church of England, the Primus inter pares, ceremonial head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the bishop of the diocese of Canterbury. The first archbishop ....See Lambeth citation lishere References 1954 births University of Madras alumni 21s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Douglas (bishop)
Ian Theodore Douglas (born May 20, 1958) is the former bishop of the Episcopal Church in Connecticut. Biography He was ordained to the diaconate on June 11, 1988, and to the priesthood on June 24, 1989. He was elected fifteenth Bishop of the Episcopal Church in Connecticut on October 24, 2009. His election marked the first time in the diocese's 224-year history that a priest from outside the diocese was elected bishop. He was consecrated on April 17, 2010. He was previously Angus Dun Professor of Mission and World Christianity at Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He also served as priest associate at St. James's Episcopal Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts from 1989 to 2010. Douglas earned degrees from Middlebury College (B.A.), Harvard University Graduate School of Education (Ed.M.), Harvard Divinity School (M.Div.) and Boston University Boston University (BU) is a Private university, private research university in Boston, Massachusetts, United Stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellison Pogo
Sir Ellison Leslie Pogo KBE (also Pogolamana; 1948 – 13 May 2013) was a Solomon Islands Anglican bishop. He was the Archbishop of Melanesia and Bishop of Central Melanesia from 1994 until December 9, 2008. He was the third Archbishop of Melanesia, following Amos Waiaru. He was married to Roslyn and had three adult children. Pogo was educated at St John's College, Auckland and ordained in 1979. After an early post at Anderson's Bay, Dunedin he was Bishop of Ysabel in the Solomon Islands until his translation to Melanesia. He was installed as Archbishop of Melanesia on 17 April 1994. Pogo was the senior primate of the Anglican Communion until his retirement and chairman of the design group of the 2008 Lambeth Conference, and Chairman of Pacific Theological College. He was also one of the few An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Bourke
Michael Gay Bourke (born 28 November 1941) was the second area and third overall Bishop of Wolverhampton from 1993 until 2007. Education and career Bourke studied Modern Languages at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and then Theology at Cambridge and Tübingen before training for the ministry at Cuddesdon Theological College. He was ordained in 1967, and began his ordained ministry as a curate at St James’ Grimsby Grimsby or Great Grimsby is a port town in Lincolnshire, England with a population of 86,138 (as of 2021). It is located near the mouth on the south bank of the Humber that flows to the North Sea. Grimsby adjoins the town of Cleethorpes dir ... after which he spent 22 years in Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire in the Diocese of St Albans rising to be Archdeacon of Bedford (1986–1993), until his ordination to the episcopate. From 1996 to 2006 he was Anglican Co-Chairman of the Meissen Commission, the body which oversees the relationship between the Church o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Patrick Gedge
David Patrick Gedge MBE FRAM FRSCM HonFGCM GRSM FRCO LRAM (1 March 1939 – 2 July 2016) was an organist based in England and Wales. Life David Gedge was the son of Arthur (Paul) Johnson Gedge 1903–1968 and Gwendoline (Wendy) Middleton 1908–1955. Paul Gedge was a parish priest, lastly in Southwark / Lambeth and an author; a friend of Eric Crozier and the influence to the character Mr. Gedge in Benjamin Britten's opera Albert Herring. On David's mother's side, he was a great-nephew to the organist Hubert Stanley Middleton. He was a chorister in Southwark Cathedral from 1947 to 1962, and educated in St Olave's Grammar School in London, the Royal Academy of Music, and the University of London. He was awarded the Turpin Prize in 1962 when he achieved his FRCO. He was made a MBE in 1993, and received the Archbishop of Wales award for church music in 1997. From 1966 to 2007, David Gedge was the organist and choirmaster at Brecon Cathedral. Gedge wrote two volumes of memoirs, ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Catterall
Mary Catterall (1922 – 2015) was a British medical doctor and sculptor. Early life Mary Catterall was born in London to William Rowley Williamson and Anne Marguerite Wlliamson. Catterall attended St Helen's School in Middlesex. She worked as a despatch rider for the Home Guard from 1939 to 1941. Medical career Catterall is recognised across the world for her pioneering work in neutron therapy. In 1943, she completed her initial training as a physiotherapist before deciding to re-train as a doctor. Having passed her first MB, Catterall was accepted at the London Hospital Medical School in an intake of 70 men and seven women. In 1959–1960, Catterall was a Research Fellow at the University of Leeds. In the 1960s Catterall gained international attention for her work at Hammersmith Hospital using an early 5 MeV cyclotron for neutron therapy treatment. She worked at Hammersmith Hospital until 1987, and wrote articles for medical journals during this period. In 1978 Catte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Morgan (bishop)
Alan Wyndham Morgan, (22 June 194024 October 2011) was the Bishop of Sherwood, a suffragan bishop in the Church of England Diocese of Southwell, from 1989 until 2004. Early life and education He was educated at Gowerton Boys' Grammar School and St David's College, Lampeter. Ordained ministry Morgan was ordained a deacon on 25 July 1964 (by John Thomas (Bishop of Swansea and Brecon) in Brecon Cathedral) and a priest in 1965, beginning his ecclesiastical career with curacies in Llangyfelach and Morriston, Cockett and Coventry. Following these he was appointed Team Vicar to St Barnabas, Coventry in 1972 and then in 1978 ''Bishop's Officer for Social Responsibility'' to John Gibbs, Bishop of Coventry. Appointed Archdeacon of Coventry in 1983 he was appointed to the episcopate six years later. Following his consecration as a bishop on 21 September 1989 by John Habgood, Archbishop of York, at York Minster, he served as the diocese as Bishop suffragan of Sherwood for fiftee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Lambton
Ann Katharine Swynford Lambton, (8 February 1912 – 19 July 2008), usually known as A.K.S. Lambton or "Nancy" Lambton, was a British historian, expert on medieval and early modern Persian history, Persian language, Islamic political theory, and Persian social organisation. She was an acknowledged authority on land tenure and reform in Iran (including Saljuq, Mongol, Safavid and Qajar administration and institutions, and local and tribal histories). Life Lambton was born in 1912 in Newmarket, Suffolk. She was the elder daughter of the Hon. George Lambton, younger son of the 2nd Earl of Durham) and his wife Cicely Margaret Horner (1882–1972). Through the influence of Edward Denison Ross, a family friend, she studied Persian at SOAS under Ross and Hamilton Gibb, and others ( Arthur Tritton, Vladimir Minorsky, and Hassan Taqizadeh). From 1939 to 1945, Lambton was Press attaché of the British Legation to Tehran, and then Professor of Persian at SOAS from 1953 to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
