Eric Waldram Kemp was a Church of England bishop.
17 Facts About Eric Kemp
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Eric Kemp was the Bishop of Chichester from 1974 to 2001.
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Eric Kemp was one of the leading 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.
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Eric Kemp was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1951 and received an honorary DLitt from the University of Sussex.
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Eric Kemp trained for ordination at St Stephen's House, Oxford from 1936 to 1939 where he later chaired the House Council.
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Eric Kemp served as assistant curate of St Luke's Church in Newtown from 1939 to 1941.
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Eric Kemp moved back to Oxford, where he remained for almost 31 years, first as Priest Librarian of Pusey House, Oxford and Chaplain of Christ Church, Oxford and then as Fellow, Tutor and Chaplain of Exeter College, Oxford, from 1946 to 1969.
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Eric Kemp was Dean of Worcester from 1969 to 1974 and Bishop of Chichester from 1974 to 2001.
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Eric Kemp had held subsidiary appointments as Chaplain to the Queen and Canon and Prebendary of Lincoln Cathedral.
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Eric Kemp wrote a book about Kirk and in 2001 presented his letters and papers to Lambeth Palace Library.
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One of his daughters, Alice Eric Kemp, has been ordained a Church of England priest in the Diocese of Bristol.
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Eric Kemp's son is the playwright Edward Kemp, a former director of RADA.
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Eric 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.
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Eric Kemp was a former member of the Court of Ecclesiastical Causes Reserved.
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Eric Kemp had special concern for homeless people and people living with HIV and Aids and was a supporter of the campaign to save the French Convalescent Home in Brighton.
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Eric Kemp was one of only four bishops in the United Kingdom who declined to sign the Cambridge Accord, affirming the human rights of homosexuals.
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Eric Kemp encouraged women to serve in the permanent diaconate in his diocese but was an opponent of the ordination of women to the priesthood and women priests were not licensed in the Diocese of Chichester during his episcopate.