Allan Johnson

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Alan Macdonald Johnson (1871 – July 1934) was an Anglican priest, most notably Archdeacon of Wellington from 1919 until 1934.

An archdeacon is a senior clergy position in the Syriac Orthodox Church, Church of the East, Chaldean Catholic Church, Anglican Communion, St Thomas Christians, Eastern Orthodox churches and some other Christian denominations, above that of most clergy and below a bishop. In the High Middle Ages it was the most senior diocesan position below a bishop in the Catholic Church. An archdeacon is often responsible for administration within an archdeaconry, which is the principal subdivision of the diocese. The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church has defined an archdeacon as "A cleric having a defined administrative authority delegated to him by the bishop in the whole or part of the diocese." The office has often been described metaphorically as that of oculus episcopi, the "bishop's eye".

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Johnson was educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge [1] and ordained in 1895. [2] After curacies in Coulsdon and Wellington he held incumbencies at Greytown and Masterton. Later he was at St Mark, Wellington then St Paul's Pro-Cathedral in the same city. He was also the Vicar general of the Diocese of Wellington from 1925 to 1929.

Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge college of the University of Cambridge

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Curate person who is invested with the care or cure (cura) of souls of a parish

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He died in July 1934.

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References

  1. ↑ "Alumni cantabrigienses; a biographical list of all known students, graduates and holders of office at the University of Cambridge, from the earliest times to 1900" Venn, J. Part II vol iii p576: Cambridge, CUP, 1947
  2. ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929 p691: London, Horace Cox, 1908


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