Kenneth Moir Carey
QHC (6 April 1908 – 3 January 1979) was an
Anglican
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bishop
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. From 1948 to 1961, he was
Principal of
Westcott House, Cambridge
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. From 1961 to 1975, he was the
Bishop of Edinburgh
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.
Early life
Carey was born on 6 April 1908, educated at
Marlborough
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* Marlborough, Wiltshire, England
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* Marlborough School, Woodstock in Oxfordshire, England
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and
Exeter College, Oxford
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He graduated from the
University of Oxford
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with a
third class honours
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Bachelor of Arts
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(BA) degree.
Ordained ministry
He was
ordained
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deacon in 1932 and priest in 1934. He began his career as
Chaplain
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of Oxford House,
Bethnal Green
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, after which he was
curate
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of St Andrew's,
Handsworth. From 1938 to 1944 he was
Vicar
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of
Spennymoor
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when he became General Secretary for the Central Advisory Council of Training for the Ministry. In 1948 he became
Principal of
Westcott House, Cambridge
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and in 1961
Bishop of Edinburgh
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Prior to the Reformation, Edinburgh was part of the Diocese of St Andrews, under the Archbishop of St Andrews ...
.
[”Scottish Episcopal Clergy, 1689-2000" Bertie, D.M: Edinburgh T & T Clark ]
An
Honorary Chaplain to the Queen
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, he retired in 1975 and died on 3 January 1979.
References
1908 births
People educated at Marlborough College
Alumni of Exeter College, Oxford
20th-century Scottish Episcopalian bishops
Bishops of Edinburgh
Honorary Chaplains to the Queen
1979 deaths
Staff of Westcott House, Cambridge
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