Kenneth Norman Ernest Newell, OBE, is a retired

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minister. He served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland (June 2004 – 2005), and was the minister of Fitzroy Presbyterian Church, until his retirement on 21 September 2008.

Biography

Newell was born in

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in 1942, just after

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. In 1976, at the height of

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, he returned to Belfast from a teaching post on the island of

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. He served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland (June 2004 – 2005), and was the minister of Fitzroy Presbyterian Church until his retirement on 21 September 2008. His time as a minister was marked by a commitment to peacemaking, and he was responsible for building relationships in communities in Belfast.

Books

* ''Captured by a Vision'' (2016) Colourpoint Books,

References

Living people Presbyterian ministers from Northern Ireland Moderators of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland Officers of the Order of the British Empire 1942 births {{Christian-clergy-stub