Bernard Pawley
British priest
About Bernard Pawley
Lived 1911 – 1981 (aged 69–70). Bernard Pawley was a British canon, curate, chaplain and anglican theologian.
Bernard Clinton Pawley (24 January 1911 – 15 November 1981) was an Anglican priest, author, and ecumenist.
He was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, educated at Portsmouth Grammar School and Wadham College, Oxford and ordained in 1936. After curacies in Stoke on Trent and Leeds he was a chaplain to the British Armed Forces between 1940 and 1945. When peace returned he was Rector of Elland and then a canon residentiary at Ely Cathedral. After a brief spell in a similar role at St Paul's Cathedral he was appointed Archdeacon of Canterbury in 1972, a post he held for nine years. A noted commentator on Vatican affairs, he died in 1981.
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Who was Bernard Pawley?
British priest
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Bernard Pawley was born in 1911.
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Bernard Pawley died in 1981.
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Bernard Pawley was a canon, curate, chaplain and anglican theologian.
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