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Norman Warren (priest)

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Norman Leonard Warren (19 July 1934 – 19 June 2019) was an Anglican priest and author.[1]

He was born in London, England and educated at Dulwich College and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge[2] Ordained in 1961, he began his ministry with a curacy in Bedworth.[3] He held incumbencies in Leamington Priors and Morden; and was the Rural Dean of Merton. He was collated Archdeacon of Rochester in 1989 until his retirement in 2000. He died in June 2019.

His evangelistic tract Journey into Life, first issued in 1964, became a best-seller, with worldwide sales of 30 million.[4]

References

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  1. ^ Amongst others he wrote Journey into Life, 1964; The Way Ahead, 1965; Directions, 1969; What's the Point?, 1986; The Path of Peace, 1988; A Certain Faith, 1988; Is God there?, 1990; Why Believe?, 1993; Responsorial Psalms of the Alternative Services Book, 1994; and Psalms for the People, 2001 > British Library website accessed 12:14 GMT 8 July 2013.
  2. ^ "Lock, Ven. Peter Harcourt D’Arcy", Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012; online edn, Nov 2012 accessed 8 July 2013
  3. ^ Crockfords (London, Church House, 1995) ISBN 0-7151-8088-6
  4. ^ "Norman Warren". Jubilate Group. Retrieved 6 December 2017. …the world's best-selling evangelistic booklet
Church of England titles
Preceded by Archdeacon of Rochester
1989–2000
Succeeded by
Peter Lock