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David Ratcliff (priest)
David William Ratcliff (born 1937) is an Anglican priest and former Archdeacons in the Diocese in Europe, Archdeacon of Scandinavia and Germany. He was educated at Edinburgh Theological College and was ordained in 1963. After Curate, curacies in Croydon and Selsdon, he was Vicar of Milton Regis from 1969 to 1975. He worked in the Diocese of Canterbury's Education Department from 1975 to 1991 before serving as a chaplain in Frankfurt and St Peter and St Sigfrid's Church, Stockholm between 1991 and 2002. He was also Archdeacon of Scandinavia and Germany from 1996 until his retirement in 2005. Notes 1937 births Alumni of Edinburgh Theological College Archdeacons of Scandinavia and Germany Living people People from the Borough of Swale {{ChurchofEngland-archdeacon-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Venerable
The Venerable (''venerabilis'' in Latin) is a style, a title, or an epithet which is used in some Western Christian churches, or it is a translation of similar terms for clerics in Eastern Orthodoxy and monastics in Buddhism. Christianity Catholic In the Catholic Church, after a deceased Catholic has been declared a Servant of God by a bishop and proposed for beatification by the Pope, such a servant of God may next be declared venerable (" heroic in virtue") during the investigation and process leading to possible canonization as a saint. A declaration that a person is venerable is not a pronouncement of their presence in Heaven. The pronouncement means it is considered likely that they are in heaven, but it is possible the person could still be in purgatory. Before one is considered venerable, one must be declared by a proclamation, approved by the Pope, to have lived a life that was "heroic in virtue" (the theological virtues of faith, hope, and charity and the cardinal virt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |