Max Warren (1904-1977) was General secretary of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) and canon of Westminster Abbey.

Biography

Warren was born in Dún Laoghaire in Ireland on 13 August 1904. He was the youngest of three sons and four children. His father was Reverend John Alexander Faris Warren of the Church of Ireland. He spent much of his early life in India with his missionary parents. He travelled to Nigeria as a missionary to the Hausa in 1928, but Ill-health soon forced him to return to the UK. He studied for ordination at

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in Cambridge, and then worked as vicar of Holy Trinity, Cambridge from 1936 to 1942. Max Warren memorial

Warren served as general secretary of the CMS for over 20 years, from 1942 to 1963, when he was appointed as canon and subdean of Westminster Abbey, London.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Warren, Max Alumni of Ridley Hall, Cambridge 20th-century English Anglican priests 1904 births 1977 deaths Canons of Westminster