Angus Campbell MacInnes (18 April 1901 – 29 April 1977) was an Anglican

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in the third quarter of the twentieth century. Angus Campbell MacInnes was born into a distinguished ecclesiastical family: his father,

Rennie MacInnes The Rt Rev Rennie MacInnes (23 July 1870 – 24 December 1931) was a bishop in the Anglican Church in the first third of the twentieth century. Biography MacInnes was educated at Windlesham House School, Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. H ...

, would be Bishop of Jerusalem from 1914 to 1931. He was educated at Harrow and

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. After a

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at St Mary Magdalene,

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, until 1927, he spent 23 years in the

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. He ended this part of his career as

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for

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and Trans-Jordan, succeeding Malcolm L. Maxwell in 1946, before returning to

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. Between 1950 and 1953 he was then successively

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of St Michael's,

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of the area and

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(1953–1957) before returning to

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to be Archbishop of JerusalemDiocesan Web-site
and then Metropolitan of the

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. A Sub-Prelate of the

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, he died on 29 April 1977.

Work

* Angus Campbell MacInnes, "The Arab refugee problem", in: ''Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society''; vol. 36, issue 2 (April 1949), pp. 178–188.

References

1901 births People educated at Harrow School Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Bishops of Bedford Anglican bishops of Jerusalem Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East archdeacons 20th-century Anglican archbishops Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George 1977 deaths Sub-Prelates of the Venerable Order of Saint John 20th-century Church of England bishops {{ChurchofEngland-bishop-stub