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Fred Pickering (priest)
Fred Pickering (18 November 1919 - 22 January 2010) was Archdeacon of Hampstead from 1974 to 1984. Pickering was educated at Preston Grammar School, St Peter's College Oxford and St Aidan's College Birkenhead. He began his career with curacies in Leyland and Islington. He was Organising Secretary. for The Church Pastoral Aid Society from 1948 to 1951. He held incumbencies at All Saints, Burton-on-Trent, St John, Carlisle and St Cuthbert, Wood Green. He was also Rural Dean of East Haringey from 1968 to 1973; and Examining Chaplain A chaplain is, traditionally, a cleric (such as a minister, priest, pastor, rabbi, purohit, or imam), or a lay representative of a religious tradition, attached to a secular institution (such as a hospital, prison, military unit, intelligence ... to the Bishop of Edmonton from 1973 to 1984.‘PICKERING, Ven. Fred’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archdeacon Of Hampstead
The Archdeacon of Hampstead is a senior ecclesiastical officer in the Church of England Diocese of London, named after, and based in and around, the Hampstead area of London. He or she is the priest responsible for the Archdeaconry of Hampstead. History The archdeaconry was created by Order in Council on 23 July 1912 from the ancient archdeaconries Archdeacon of Middlesex, of Middlesex and Archdeacon of London, of London; at its erection it consisted the rural deaneries of Enfield, of Holborn, and of Tottenham (from the London archdeaconry) and of Hampstead, of Hornsey, of St Marylebone, of St Pancras, and of Willesden (from the Middlesex archdeaconry). Part of the archdeaconry was split off to create the Archdeacon of Charing Cross, Charing Cross archdeaconry before 1989. The Hampstead archdeaconry is geographically equivalent to the episcopal area overseen by the Bishop of Edmonton (London), area Bishop of Edmonton. List of archdeacons *1912–1920 (ret.): Brook Deedes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |