John Long (priest), Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

John Long (priest)

priest

Date of Birth: 21-Jul-1913

Date of Death: 04-Jun-2008

Profession: priest, chaplain

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About John Long (priest)

  • John Sanderson Long (21 July 1913 - 4 June 2008) was an Anglican priest.Long was born into an ecclesiastical family and educated at St Edmund’s School, Canterbury, Queens' College, Cambridge and Ripon College Cuddesdon.
  • After a curacy at St Mary and St Eanswythe's Church, Folkestone he was a World War II chaplain in the Royal Naval Reserve.
  • He was domestic chaplain to the Geoffrey Fisher, the Archbishop of Canterbury, from 1946 to 1953.
  • He then held incumbencies at Bearsted and Petersfield before becoming the Archdeacon of Ely in 1970.
  • He retired in 1981.

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