Colin Slee
Colin Bruce Slee OBE ( born November 10, 1945 in London, † 25 November 2010) was a British theologian of the Anglican Church and from 1994 until his death, Dean of Southwark Cathedral.
Life
Slee was born in 1945 as the son of a policeman in London. After finishing school, he spent nearly two years as a member of the Voluntary Service Overseas in Papua New Guinea, before studying theology at King's College London, and afterwards at St Augustine 's College in Canterbury was preparing for the priesthood. In 1970 he was ordained a priest.
Slee was 1970-1973 curate of St Francis Church in Norwich and was then curate of Great St Mary's, the University Church in Cambridge, and chaplain in Girton College, which was a college for women at this time. 1976 he was appointed chaplain of King's College London. In 1982 he moved to St Albans, where he was responsible until 1994 residentiary Canon and Sub - Dean of St Albans Cathedral and for pastoral duties. 1994 Slee the Provost of Southwark Cathedral; this title was amended in 2000 in Dean.
Slee was also active in church policy active and expressed often in debates on religious topics. The General Synod he was a member since 1995. He was also a member of the Crown Nominations Committee, which was responsible for the selection of new bishops and the occupation of other high church offices since 2006. He was made a Officer in the Order of the British Empire in 2001. In the same year he became a Fellow of King's College London.
June 2010 he invited Katharine Jefferts Schori, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church of the United States of America, to a, to preach in the Southwark Cathedral.
In studies suffered as a result of the fall of 2010 during a Majorca holiday fall inoperabeler pancreatic cancer was diagnosed in Slee. A few weeks later he died of this disease.
Slee was married to the originating from New Zealand Edith Tryon since 1971 and had with her a son and two daughters. In addition, the couple had two foster children they adopted later. Slee was chairman of the Tutu Foundation. In addition, he was active in the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowship, the British School of Osteopathy and the International Network Focus on New Religious Movements.
Inner Ecclesiastical work
Slee was considered contentious figure within the Church of England with liberal views on women's ordination and homosexuality. He was a close friend of Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Archbishop Rowan Williams. Even with the theologian Jeffrey John whom he had a friendship. As this 2003 because of his homosexuality the episcopacy was barred from Slee began for him and joined Johns against conservative critics. The area occupied by Archbishop Williams as head of the Church of England attitude was met with harsh criticism on Slee.
Slee saw himself as a priest in the Anglo- Catholic tradition. He represented orthodox views regarding the design of the service and appropriate clothing of priests. For example, he suggested that the active in the Southwark Cathedral clergy should wear black shirts to draw attention to the history and origin, which is deeply rooted in the monastic tradition.
He was also an opponent of evangelical movements in the Anglican Church and sought to roll back the influence of the Crown Nominations Committee. What he, as in the case of unconcluded bishop appointment of Jeffrey John, was not always successful. As the evangelical Bishop of Rochester Michael Nazir - Ali refused to attend the Lambeth Conference in 2008, accusing him of attempting to Slee schism and put Nazir - Ali's further stay in the Anglican church in question.
Slees Total views meant that he was regarded as a service to the Bishop to controversial candidate, which cost him an appointment within the Church of England, and in 2007 was appointed Bishop of Christchurch. Especially in New Zealand met his possible appointment to strong criticism of conservative circles.
Writings (selection )
- New Religious Movements and the Church published in New religious movements: challenge and response (1999)