Eric Kemp
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Eric Waldram Kemp
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| Bishop of Chichester | |
| Church | Church of England |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Diocese | Chichester |
| Installed | 1974 |
| Term ended | 2001 (retirement) |
| Predecessor | Roger Wilson |
| Successor | John Hind |
| Other post(s) | Bishop Emeritus of Chichester (2001–2009) Dean of Worcester (1969–1974) |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 1939 (deacon) 1940 (priest) |
| Consecration | 1974 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 27 April 1915 |
| Died | 28 November 2009 (aged 94) |
| Denomination | Anglicanism |
| Spouse | Patricia Kirk |
| Children | 1 son; 4 daughters[1] |
| Alma mater | Exeter College, Oxford |
Eric Waldram Kemp Anglo-Catholics of his generation and one of the most influential figures in the Church of England in the last quarter of the twentieth century.[2]
Education
Kemp was educated at
Master of Arts in 1940, Bachelor of Divinity in 1944 and Doctor of Divinity in 1961. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1951 and received an honorary DLitt from the University of Sussex
.
Ministry
Kemp trained for ordination at
Chaplain to the Queen (1967–1969) and Canon and Prebendary of Lincoln Cathedral (1952–2001). In April 1998 he was appointed Chanoine d'Honneur (Canon of Honour) of Chartres Cathedral
. Following his retirement he was made Bishop Emeritus of Chichester.
Family
Kemp's father-in-law,
RADA.[8]
Significance
Kemp was one of the leading scholars of ecclesiastical law and a participant in conversations between the Church of England and the Methodist Church of Great Britain. He was a former member of the Court of Ecclesiastical Causes Reserved.[9] In 1998 a volume of essays on English Canon Law was published in his honour.[10]
He had special concern for
HIV and Aids and was a supporter of the campaign to save the French Convalescent Home in Brighton. In 1994 he became President of the National Liberal Club
.
He was one of only four bishops in the United Kingdom who declined to sign the
homosexuals.[11]
He encouraged women to serve in the permanent diaconate in his diocese but was an opponent of the
John William Hind, was the Reverend Pat Sinton who was licensed as priest-in-charge of St Mary's Shipley in November 2001. In Kemp's time women were able to work within the diocese through the approval of the Archbishop of Canterbury.[12]
Publications
Author
- 1948: Canonization and Authority in the Western Church (London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press)
- 1956: Bishops and Presbyters at Alexandria (London: Faber)
- 1957: An Introduction to Canon Law in the Church of England (London: Hodder and Stoughton)
- 1959: The Life and Letters of Kenneth Escott Kirk, Bishop of Oxford, 1937-1954 (London: Hodder & Stoughton)
- 1961: Counsel and Consent: aspects of the government of the Church as exemplified in the history of the English provincial synods (London: SPCK)
- 1964: The Anglican-Methodist Conversations: a comment from within (London: Oxford University Press)
- 1979: Square Words in a Round World (London: Fount)
- 2006: Shy but not Retiring: the memoirs of the Right Reverend Eric Waldram Kemp; edited and prepared for publication by Jeremy Matthew Haselock (London: Continuum ISBN 0-8264-8073-X)
Contributions
- 1948: E. G. Wood, The Regal Power of the Church: or, The fundamentals of the canon law (with a preface and a supplementary bibliography by E. W. Kemp (London: Dacre Press)
- 1954: N. P. Williams (London: SPCK) (sermons by Williams, with a memoir by Kemp)
- 1954: Papal Decretals Relating to the Diocese of Lincoln in the Twelfth Century (ed. with an introduction on the sources by Walther Holtzmann, with translations of the texts and an introduction on the Canon Law and its administration in the twelfth century by Eric Waldram Kemp, Publications of the Lincoln Record Society vol. 47, Hereford: Lincoln Record Society)
Edited
- 1969: Man: Fallen and Free; Oxford essays on the condition of man (London: Hodder & Stoughton)
External links
References
- ^ "The Right Reverend Eric Kemp". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 14 May 2022.
- ^ Shy But Not Retiring: Memoirs synopsis. ASIN 082648073X.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 27 August 2019 – via UK Press Online archives.
- ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 27 August 2019 – via UK Press Online archives.
- ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 27 August 2019 – via UK Press Online archives.
- ^ The Life and Letters of Kenneth Escott Kirk, Bishop of Oxford, 1937-1954. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1959.
- ^ "The Diocese of Bristol". Archived from the original on 20 July 2012.
- ^ Cavendish, Dominic (27 September 2005). "Face to faith". The Telegraph. Retrieved 6 February 2020.
- ^ "No. 52828". The London Gazette. 10 February 1992. p. 2231.
- ISBN 0-7083-1478-3
- ^ "The Cambridge Accord". Changing Attitude. 2001–2006. Archived from the original on 23 October 2001. Retrieved 21 February 2008.
- London: BBC. 16 November 2001. Retrieved 26 October 2006.
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