John Habgood, Baron Habgood

John Stapylton Habgood, Baron Habgood PC ( born June 23, 1927 in Stony Stratford ) was a British Anglican clergyman. He was from 1973 to 1983 Bishop of Durham from 1983 to 1995 and Archbishop of York. He was a Life Peer deputy in the House of Lords.

Life and career

Habgood attended from 1941 to 1945 Eton College and then attended King's College, University of Cambridge, where he studied physics, chemistry, mathematics and physiology. He graduated in 1952 with a Ph.D. and received a Research Fellowship at King's College until 1955.

Since 1947 he had become a member of the Christian Union in Cambridge and supported in this function new students. Doubt about the time of his insecurity and his previously desired career path led in 1953 to his decision to include the training of Anglican clergy at Ripon Theological College Cuddesdon in Oxford. From 1950 to 1953 he headed to the University of Cambridge training seminars in pharmacology. From 1952 to 1955 he was a Fellow of King's College.

From 1954 to 1956 he was Vicar ( Curate ) on the church of St Mary Abbots in Kensington. In 1955 he was ordained a priest in 1956 and returned back to Cambridge to teach at Westcott House as Deputy Head of theology. He belonged to a group of Anglican theologians, who were responsible for the publication of Soundings, an authoritative work have been published in the critical opinions of his early biblical interpretation. From 1962 to 1967, Habgood Pastor ( Rector ) at St John 's Church in Jedburgh.

In 1967 he was offered in Edgbaston in Birmingham, which was already fully equipped, but has not yet had very few students the management of the greatly expanded seminary Queen 's College. After a merger with the Handsworth Methodist College (1970 ), Queen 's College, the first and only ecumenical theological college in the United Kingdom. Habgood held simultaneously along with John Hick Lectures on Ethics at Birmingham University. From 1971 to 1973 he was Honorarkanoniker ( Honorary Canon ) at Birmingham Cathedral.

In 1973 he was appointed Bishop of Durham and was also a member of the House of Lords. This was accompanied by a strong involvement in the work of the British Council of Churches and later in the World Council of Churches, where he took over the mediation between the church and the social branch. In 1983 he was appointed Archbishop of York and was Privy Counsellor. Among many other activities, he took over the chairmanship of the board that led both the Roman Catholic Church and the Pentecostal churches for participation in the ecumenical movement in Britain. At that time existed between the Church of England and the government of Margaret Thatcher major differences of opinion, but he could have a decisive influence on the adoption of the Law Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act. He was also seen as a possible successor to Robert Runcie.

From 1983 to 1991 he was a member of the World Council of Churches and 1983-1990 Moderator of the Church and Society Sub-Unit. He has written several natural and religious studies books. Habgood is a member and was president of The Science and Religion Forum.

Membership in the House of Lords

As a bishop he was sitting on 30 April 1973 to September 8, 1995 in the House of Lords. In his resignation he was appointed on 8 September 1995 for Life Peer and bears the title Baron Habgood, of Calverton in the County of Buckinghamshire.

When his political interests he gave to science, medicine and ethics. As the state of interest he called South Africa. Three years he was chair of the Government Commission on xenotransplantation.

On 12 May 2006 he reported to last word. To date the last time he took part in a vote on 14 March 2007. Since the 25th of May 2010 he was on leave due to a permanently granted by the House of Lords Leave of Absence.

On October 3, 2011 Habgood took one in the Rules of Procedure newly created retirement scheme (Voluntary Retirement Scheme) to complete; then it is allowed members of the House of Lords for the first time, permanently waive their mandate.

Honors

Habgood was developed by the Universities of Cambridge (1984 ), Oxford ( 1996), Durham (1975 ), Aberdeen (1988 ), London ( 2005), Hull ( 1991), York (1996, PA), Manchester ( 1996) and Huron ( 1990) awarded an honorary doctorate.

In 1986 he became an Honorary Fellow of King's College. In 2000 he became an Honorary Bencher of the Law Society at Inner Temple.

Family

In 1961 he married Rosalie Boston, a musician and music teacher. 1962 the couple moved into the community Jedburgh to Scotland, where three of their four children were born.

Title

  • The Rt Revd Dr John Habgood (1973-1983)
  • The Most Revd and Rt Hon Dr John Habgood PC (1983-1995)
  • The Rt Revd and Rt Hon The Lord Habgood PC ( 1995 - )

Publications

  • Truths in Tension, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964, ISBN unknown
  • Religion and Science, Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 1972, ISBN 978-0-340-16120-3
  • A Working Faith, Darton, Longman & Todd Ltd, 1980, ISBN 978-0-232-51454-4
  • Church and Nation in a Secular Age, Darton, Longman & Todd Ltd, 1983, ISBN 978-0-232-51608-1
  • Confessions of a Liberal Conservative, SPCK Publishing, 1988, ISBN 978-0-281-04384-2
  • Making Sense: A Collection of Sermons Published on the Archbishop of York 's 10th Anniversary in office, SPCK Publishing, 1993, ISBN 978-0-281-04711-6
  • Faith and Uncertainty, Darton, Longman & Todd Ltd, 1997, ISBN 978-0-232-52227-3
  • Being a Person: Where Faith and Science Meet, Hodder & Stoughton Religious, 1998, ISBN 978-0-340-69073-4
  • Varieties of Unbelief ( Bampton Lectures ), Darton, Longman & Todd Ltd, 2000, ISBN 978-0-232-52320-1
  • The Concept of Nature ( Gifford Lectures ), Darton, Longman & Todd Ltd, 2002, ISBN 978-0-232-52439-0
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