Christopher Campling
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Christopher Russell Campling (4 July 1925 – 9 December 2020) was a British Anglican priest who was the Dean of Ripon.[1]
Early life and education
Campling was born on 4 July 1925 and educated at Lancing College and St Edmund Hall, Oxford.[2]
Ordained ministry
Ordained in 1952 he began his career with a curacy in Basingstoke[3] after which he was a Minor Canon at Ely Cathedral.[4] He was then appointed Chaplain of his old school. Later Vicar then Rural Dean of Pershore, his next appointment was as Archdeacon of Dudley in 1975 — a post he held jointly with his role as director of education for the Anglican Diocese of Worcester and priest-in-charge of St Augustine's Church, Dodderhill, Droitwich. Then, in 1984, he was appointed Dean of Ripon.[5] After 11 years as head of Ripon Cathedral, he retired from full-time ministry.
Campling belonged to the liberal wing of the Church of England. He was a supporter of ecumenism, the ordination of women, the remarriage of divorcees in church.[6]
An eminent author,[7] he retired to Worthing[8] where he wrote his memoir, I Was Glad.[9] He continued to preach and lecture occasionally in retirement.[10]
He died on 9 December 2020 at the age of 95.[11]
References
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- ↑ "Campling, Very Rev. Christopher Russell", Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012; online edn, Nov 2012 accessed 23 Sept 2013
- ↑ Who's Who 2008: London, A & C Black, 2008 Template:ISBN
- ↑ Debrett's People of Today: (1992, London, Debrett's) Template:ISBN
- ↑ Crockford's clerical directory Lambeth, Church House, 1976 Template:ISBN
- ↑ The Times, Wednesday, 8 May 09, 1984; p. 16; Issue 61826; col G New Dean of Ripon
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- ↑ Amongst others he wrote “The Way, The Truth and The Life” (Vol. 1, The Love of God in Action, 1964; Vol. 2, The People of God in Action, 1964; Vol. 3, The Word of God in Action, 1965; Vol. 4, God's Plan in Action, 1965); “Words of Worship”, 1969; “The Fourth Lesson” (Vol. 1 1973, Vol. 2 1974); and The Food of Love, 1997
- ↑ Churches Together in Sussex No. 81 (2013, Brighton)
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- ↑ Ripon Cathedral News, January 2011
- ↑ Campling
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