John Asbridge
The Reverend John Asbridge was Vicar of St Stephen's Church, Shepherd's Bush, London during the 1960s, and was the driving force behind the creation of the Shepherds Bush Housing Association Shepherds Bush Housing Group is made up of two brands: Shepherds Bush Housing Association and BE WEST. Shepherds Bush Housing Association is a housing association based in west London. The Shepherds Bush Housing Association was first established i ..., an organisation which was set up to help solve problems of homelessness and poor housing in West London. Shepherd's Bush Housing Association The choir vestry at St Stephen’s was used as an office, which was run by volunteers from the parish. In addition, help was given by a number of parishioners who gifted their own houses to the association for use by homeless people. Their first acquisition was a dilapidated house at 220 Hammersmith Grove, which was converted into flats. Asbridge ran the Association for 20 years, retiring in 1988. Today, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Reverend
The Reverend is an honorific style most often placed before the names of Christian clergy and ministers. There are sometimes differences in the way the style is used in different countries and church traditions. ''The Reverend'' is correctly called a ''style'' but is often and in some dictionaries called a title, form of address, or title of respect. The style is also sometimes used by leaders in other religions such as Judaism and Buddhism. The term is an anglicisation of the Latin ''reverendus'', the style originally used in Latin documents in medieval Europe. It is the gerundive or future passive participle of the verb ''revereri'' ("to respect; to revere"), meaning " ne who isto be revered/must be respected". ''The Reverend'' is therefore equivalent to ''The Honourable'' or ''The Venerable''. It is paired with a modifier or noun for some offices in some religious traditions: Lutheran archbishops, Anglican archbishops, and most Catholic bishops are usually styled ''The Mo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Vicar
A vicar (; Latin: '' vicarius'') is a representative, deputy or substitute; anyone acting "in the person of" or agent for a superior (compare "vicarious" in the sense of "at second hand"). Linguistically, ''vicar'' is cognate with the English prefix "vice", similarly meaning "deputy". The title appears in a number of Christian ecclesiastical contexts, but also as an administrative title, or title modifier, in the Roman Empire. In addition, in the Holy Roman Empire a local representative of the emperor, perhaps an archduke, might be styled " vicar". Roman Catholic Church The Pope uses the title ''Vicarius Christi'', meaning the ''vicar of Christ''. In Catholic canon law, ''a vicar is the representative of any ecclesiastic'' entity. The Romans had used the term to describe officials subordinate to the praetorian prefects. In the early Christian churches, bishops likewise had their vicars, such as the archdeacons and archpriests, and also the rural priest, the curate who h ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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St Stephen's Church, Shepherd's Bush
The Church of St Stephen and St Thomas is a Church of England parish church in Shepherd's Bush, London. It was built circa 1849–50, designed by architect Anthony Salvin in the Gothic Revival style and is now Grade II listed. The church is located on the South side of Uxbridge Road on the corner of Coverdale Road, to the west of Shepherd's Bush tube station. In the 1950s St Stephen's welcomed many members of the so-called "Windrush Generation" from the West Indies, and in 1962 the Barbadian-born Reverend Wilfred Wood became curate to St Stephen's, later becoming the Church of England's first black bishop. In 1966 the vicar John Asbridge, frustrated by the chronic shortage of local housing, set up the Shepherds Bush Housing Association. Today St Stephen's ministers to a diverse congregation, and serves a hot meal to up to 100 homeless people every Monday. The church is on Historic England's ''Heritage at Risk Register'' and an appeal has been launched to raise funds to repair t ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Shepherds Bush Housing Association
Shepherds Bush Housing Group is made up of two brands: Shepherds Bush Housing Association and BE WEST. Shepherds Bush Housing Association is a housing association based in west London. The Shepherds Bush Housing Association was first established in 1966 by Reverend John Asbridge, vicar of St Stephen's Church, Shepherd's Bush, who sought with his parishioners a means to "acquire and administer property for letting to needy families." By the early 2000s the SBHA owned and managed more than 5,000 homes. In mid 2023 it was reported that the SBHA might merge, or be taken over by, The Guinness Partnership, following a "breach of economic standards". History In the early 1960s members of St Stephen's Church, Shepherd's Bush were concerned about the poor conditions in which many parishioners lived. Vicar Reverend John Asbridge led a group of individuals, drawn from the parish and elsewhere, to "acquire and administer property for letting to needy families." The trust's first prope ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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British Religious Leaders
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