About John Long
Lived 1913 – 2008 (aged 94). John Long was a chaplain and presbyter.
The Ven. John Sanderson Long (21 July 1913 – 4 June 2008) was an Anglican priest.
Long was born into an ecclesiastical family and educated at St Edmund's School, Canterbury, Queens' College, Cambridge and Ripon College Cuddesdon. After a curacy at St Mary and St Eanswythe's Church, Folkestone he was a World War II chaplain in the Royal Naval Reserve. He was domestic chaplain to the Geoffrey Fisher, the Archbishop of Canterbury, from 1946 to 1953. He then held incumbencies at Bearsted and Petersfield before becoming the Archdeacon of Ely in 1970. He retired in 1981.
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Anglican priest (1913-2008)
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John Long was born on 21 July 1913.
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John Long died on 4 June 2008.
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John Long was a chaplain and presbyter.
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