John Tiller (priest)

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John Tiller (born 22 June 1938) is an Anglican priest [1] and author. [2] He is best known for his 1983 report to the Church of England's Advisory Council for the Church's Ministry (ACCM), entitled A Strategy for the Church's Ministry, which called for a longer-term strategic view to take into account the serious decline in numbers of stipendiary clergy. Many of the report's ideas and proposals have proved prophetic and the report was influential in the wider Anglican Communion. [3]

Tiller was educated at St Albans School and Christ Church, Oxford. He was ordained deacon in 1962, and priest in 1963. After curacies in Bedford and Bath he was

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  1. "John Tiller" . Crockford's Clerical Directory (online ed.). Church House Publishing.
  2. Among others he has written The Service of Holy Communion and its Revision (1972), A Modern Liturgical Bibliography (1974), The Great Acquittal (1980), Puritan, Pietist, Pentecostalist (1982), A Strategy for the Church's Ministry (1983) and The Gospel Community (1987). British Library web site accessed 15:30, 23 February 2016
  3. Surman, Anthony. "Continuity and Change in Ordained Ministry in the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia" (PDF). University of Auckland.
  4. ‘TILLER, Ven. John’, Who's Who 2016, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2015 ; online edn, Nov 2015 accessed 23 Feb 2016
Church of England titles
Preceded by Archdeacon of Hereford
2002–2004
Succeeded by


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