George Bernard Austin (16 July 1931 – 30 January 2019)Companies House was a British Anglican priest, broadcaster and author.Amongst others he wrote Life of our Lord, 1960; WCC Programme to Combat Racism, 1979; When will ye be Wise?, 1983; Building in Love, 1990; Journey to Faith, 1992; Affairs of State, 1995; Quo Vaditis, 1996; and But This I Know, 1996 > British Library website accessed 14 May 2017 He was Archdeacon of York from 1988 to 1999.LinkedIn
Austin was educated at St David's College, Lampeter and Chichester Theological College. He was ordained deacon in 1955, and priest in 1956.Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975–76 :London, OUP, 1976 After curacies in Chorley and Notting Dale he was at Dunstable Priory from 1961 to 1964. After that he held incumbencies at Eaton Bray, and (his final post before installation to the archidiaconate) Bushey Heath.‘AUSTIN, Ven. George Bernard’, Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016; online edn, November 2016 accessed 14 May 2017
A contributor to BBC Radio 4's Thought for the Day programme, he was a prominent opponent of the ordination of women in the Anglican Communion."Outspoken scourge of Church of England liberals who declared Prince Charles unfit to be king" Daily Telegraph Issue no 50,926, dated Tuesday 12 February 2019 p27 (obituaries)
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