Charles William Desmond Carroll (27 January 1919 – 14 February 2012) was the
Archdeacon of Blackburn
The Archdeacon of Blackburn is a senior ecclesiastical officer within the Diocese of Blackburn. Originally created on 17 August 1877 within the Diocese of Manchester, the office became a part of the new Diocese of Blackburn upon its creation on 12 ...
from 1983 to 1985.
Carroll was educated at
St Columba's College, Dublin and
Trinity College, Dublin
, name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin
, motto = ''Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam'' (Latin)
, motto_lang = la
, motto_English = It will last i ...
. After an earlier career as a school teacher he was
Vicar of
Stanwix
Stanwix is a district of Carlisle, Cumbria in North West England. The ward population (called Stanwix Urban) had a population taken at the 2011 census of 5,934. It is located on the north side of River Eden, across from Carlisle city centre ...
from 1950 to 1959;
Director of
Religious Education
In secular usage, religious education is the teaching of a particular religion (although in the United Kingdom the term ''religious instruction'' would refer to the teaching of a particular religion, with ''religious education'' referring to te ...
for the
Diocese of Blackburn from 1959 to 1964; and a
canon residentiary
A canon (from the Latin , itself derived from the Greek , , "relating to a rule", "regular") is a member of certain bodies in subject to an ecclesiastical rule.
Originally, a canon was a cleric living with others in a clergy house or, later, i ...
of
Blackburn Cathedral from 1964 until his appointment as an
archdeacon
An archdeacon is a senior clergy position in the Church of the East, Chaldean Catholic Church, Syriac Orthodox Church, Anglican Communion, St Thomas Christians, Eastern Orthodox churches and some other Christian denominations, above that o ...
.
['' Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76'', London: Oxford University Press, 1976 ]
References
1919 births
2012 deaths
People educated at St Columba's College, Dublin
Alumni of Trinity College Dublin
Archdeacons of Blackburn
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