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Francis Harry House

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MA was Archdeacon of Macclesfield from 1967 to 1978. Born into an ecclesiastical family on 9 August 1908, he was educated at

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and

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and

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after a period of study at

Ripon College Cuddesdon Ripon College Cuddesdon (RCC) is a Church of England seminary, theological college in Cuddesdon, a village outside Oxford, England. The College trains men and women for ministry in the Church of England: stipendiary, non-stipendiary, local orda ...

in 1937. He was successively: Assistant Missioner at the

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Mission at

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; Travelling Secretary of the World's Student Christian Federation at

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from 1938 to 1940.;

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from 1940 to 1942; Overseas Assistant of the

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Department in

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from 1942 to 1944; representative of World Student Relief in Greece from 1944 to 1946; Secretary of the Youth Department

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and the World Conference of Christian Youth, Oslo in 1946 and 1947 respectively;Head of Religious Broadcasting at the

from 1947 to 1955; Associate General Secretary of the

in Geneva from 1955 to 1962; and

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of St Giles,

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before his years as an

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. He died on 1 September 2004.''The Ven Francis House''

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(London, England), Tuesday, September 14, 2004; pg. 33; Issue 68180

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1908 births People educated at St George's School, Harpenden Alumni of Wadham College, Oxford Alumni of Ripon College Cuddesdon Officers of the Order of the British Empire Archdeacons of Macclesfield Religious broadcasting in the United Kingdom 2004 deaths {{York-archdeacon-stub