John Long

Priest, Deceased Person

1888 – 2008

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Who was John Long?

John Sanderson Long 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 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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Born
Jul 31, 1888
Also known as
  • John Sanderson Long
Nationality
  • United Kingdom
Profession
Died
Jun 4, 2008

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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