John William Alexander Howe (14 July 1920 – 26 April 2001) was an Anglican

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, who served as the eighth Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane, and became the

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Education

Born in

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on 14 July 1920 he was educated at Westcliff High School for Boys and Durham University, where he was President of the Durham Union from the

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1942 to the

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deacon in 1943, and priest in 1944, and began his ecclesiastical career as a

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at All Saints, Scarborough. He was

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at Adisadel College Gold Coast and then

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of Edinburgh Theological College. In 1955 he was elected to the

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, as Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane in the

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. He resigned the see in 1969 in order to take up a senior position in London as Executive Officer of the Anglican Communion on 1 May 1969. In that role, Howe was part of establishing the permanent

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. In the process, the post of Executive Officer was ended, but at the first meeting of the ACC in 1971, Howe was elected to become the first Secretary General of the Anglican Consultative Council, a substantially similar role in which he served until 31 December 1982.

Death

He died on 26 April 2001, aged 80. Obituary
Independent.co.uk; accessed 20 June 2015.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Howe, John William Alexander 1920 births 2001 deaths People educated at Westcliff High School for Boys Alumni of St Chad's College, Durham Bishops of Saint Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane 20th-century Scottish Episcopalian bishops Holders of a Lambeth degree Place of death missing Presidents of the Durham Union