Chris Lee is an

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priest-in-charge at St. Saviour's Church in Wendell Park,

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Personal life

Lee described himself as being lost on a "middle-class conveyor belt" on what to do with his life. Lee later moved to

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to teach English at a

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using the Bible as his main teaching tool, where he states he found his calling to become a priest. He then completed a distance-learning degree to become a Church of England priest and was ordained a

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in the diocese of

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at the age of 24. Holly Willoughby on ''This Morning'' described Chris as "the nation's favourite vicar". He moved to St Saviour's in 2015. He is married.

Online fame

Lee first appeared on the YouTube channel Korean Englishman, where he ate fire noodles and ''

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and beer). His response to the

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, where he prayed for the students, made him famous online; he was seen as an open-minded and non-judgemental Christian voice on the channel. This led to the "British Priest Reacts" series on Korean Englishman's second channel, Jolly, on which he regularly featured. In 2018, he visited

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with his wife, Jenny, on a series hosted by Korean Englishman. In 2019, he and his twin brother Charles, a

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in the British Army, went to

in the "Twins" series on Korean Englishman. Following his online popularity, he decided to posts images of his home life, as well as 60-second sermons and theological commentary on his Instagram. In 2020, he compiled some of these sermons into a book, ''The OMG Effect: 60-Second Sermons to Live a Fuller Life''. He has called for the church to do more to reach younger people through

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lee, Chris Living people Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century English Anglican priests