Michael Perry (priest)

Michael Charles Perry (1933 - 2015) was an Anglican priest[1] and author.[2]

Perry was born in Ashby de la Zouch[3] on 5 June 1933 and educated at Ashby de la Zouch Boys' Grammar School; Trinity College, Cambridge; and Westcott House, Cambridge. After a curacy in Berkswich he was Chaplain at Ripon College Cuddesdon.[4] He was Chief Assistant for Home Publishing at the SPCK from 1963 until 1970; and Archdeacon of Durham from 1970[5] to 1993.[6]

He died on 22 January 2015.

References
  1. ‘PERRY, Rev. Canon Michael Charles’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2015 ; online edn, Nov 2015 accessed 29 Dec 2015
  2. Amongst others he wrote The Easter Enigma, 1959; The Pattern of Matins and Evensong, 1961; Meet the Prayer Book, 1963; Sharing in One Bread, 1973; The Resurrection of Man, 1975; The Paradox of Worship, 1977; A Handbook of Parish Worship, 1989; Gods Within: a critical guide to the New Age, 1992; and Psychical and Spiritual, 2003 > British Library web site accessed 19:18 GMT Tuesday 29 December 2015
  3. White Crow Books
  4. Crockford's Clerical Directory 2008/9 p636: London, Church House, 2008 ISBN 978-0-7151-1029-4
  5. Church News. New Archdeacon of Durham The Times (London, England), Tuesday, 14 October 1969; pg. 10; Issue 57690
  6. Church news. Archdeacon of Durham to resign The Times (London, England), Wednesday, 24 March 1993; pg. ^; Issue 64600


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