- Colin Slee
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Colin Slee Born 10 November 1945[1]
West LondonDied 25 November 2010
Southwark, LondonEducation King's College London;
St Augustine's College, CanterburyChurch Church of England Ordained 1970[2] Congregations served St Francis, Heartsease, Norwich;
Church of St Mary the Great, Cambridge;
St Albans Abbey;
Southwark CathedralOffices held Sub-Dean and Canon Residentiary, St Albans Abbey;
Provost / Dean,[3] Southwark CathedralThe Very Rev Colin Slee (10 November 1945[1] - 25 November 2010) was a clergyman in the Church of England, most notable for his final post as Dean of Southwark Cathedral, a post he held from 1994 until his death. A friend of Desmond Tutu[1] and Rowan Williams, his churchmanship was liberal (he was influenced by the book Honest to God during his youth[1]) and Anglo-Catholic, with his backing of Jeffrey John's nomination as a bishop in 2003[1] and opposition to the use of Jerusalem in church.[2]
Life
Slee was born in West London, as the son of a policeman.[2] Educated at Ealing Grammar School for Boys, he then spent nearly two years in Papua New Guinea on VSO[1] before reading theology at King's College London (where he won a university Purple in rowing). Trained for the priesthood at St Augustine's College, he was ordained in 1970[2] and served his first post as curate of St Francis church, Heartsease, Norwich.[1] In 1971 he married Edith Tryon, born in New Zealand, and they had three children, along with two foster children.[2] His next posts were as curate of Great St Mary's in Cambridge and chaplain of Girton College (1973–76), chaplain of King's College London (1976–1982) as well as Chief Coach of KCL Boat Club, a role he continued after becoming Canon Residentiary and Sub-Dean at St Albans Cathedral (1982–94).[2]
He became dean of Southwark in 1994, where he oversaw the building of a new library, conference centre and refectory, built links with the chapel of Harvard University (becoming an honorary lecturer at its Divinity School[1]) and became a trustee of the Millennium Bridge and chaplain to Shakespeare's Globe.[1] In 1995 he was elected to General Synod,[2] serving until his death, and in 2001 was awarded the OBE[4] and made a Fellow of King's College London.[1] He was also a member of the Crown Nominations Committee from 2006 onwards, chairman of the Tutu Foundation and involved in the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowship, the British School of Osteopathy and the International Network Focus on New Religious Movements.[1] In 2007 conservatives successfully opposed his appointment as bishop of Christchurch in New Zealand.[2] In June 2010 he invited Katherine Jefferts Schori to preach at Southwark Cathedral.[1] He died in November 2010 of pancreatic cancer.[5]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Obituary - Colin Slee". The Telegraph. 25 November 2010. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/religion-obituaries/8160669/The-Very-Reverend-Colin-Slee.html. Retrieved 26 November 2010.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Obituary - Colin Slee". The Guardian. 26 November 2010. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/25/the-very-rev-colin-slee-obituary. Retrieved 26 November 2010.
- ^ All Church of England provosts restyled deans in 2000 - "Obituary - Colin Slee". The Telegraph. 25 November 2010. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/religion-obituaries/8160669/The-Very-Reverend-Colin-Slee.html. Retrieved 26 November 2010.
- ^ "Southwark Cathedral’s Dean Colin Slee has died". www.se1.co.uk. 25 October 2010. http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/4963. Retrieved 26 November 2010.
- ^ "Liberal Anglican Colin Slee dies". The Guardian. 25 November 2010. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2010/nov/25/liberal-anglican-colin-slee-dies. Retrieved 26 November 2010.
- Bill Ritson (3 December 2010). "Obituary - The Very Revd Colin Slee". http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/content.asp?id=104835. Retrieved 10 December 2010. (subscription required)
Provosts/Deans of Southwark John Bernard Haldane • Frederick Dudley Vaughan Narborough • Cuthbert Killick Norman Bardsley • Hugh Edward Ashdown • George Edmund Reindorp • Ernest William Southcott • Harold Edward Frankham • David Lawrence Edwards • Colin Slee • Andrew Nunn
Office holders in the Diocese of Southwark The Bishop of Southwark • The Bishop of Woolwich • The Bishop of Kingston-upon-Thames •
The Archdeacon of Wandsworth
The Provost of Southwark (until 2000)
The Dean of Southwark (since 2000) •
The Archdeacon of Croydon • The Archdeacon of Lambeth • The Archdeacon of Lewisham • The Archdeacon of Reigate • The Archdeacon of Southwark •Categories:- 1945 births
- 2010 deaths
- Alumni of St Augustine's College, Canterbury
- Provosts/Deans of Southwark
- Deaths from pancreatic cancer
- Anglo-Catholics
- Alumni of King's College London
- Harvard Divinity School faculty
- Chaplains of King's College London
- Fellows of King's College London
- Chaplains of Girton College, Cambridge
- Officers of the Order of the British Empire
- Cancer deaths in England
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