Bob Reiss (priest)

Canon Robert Paul "Bob" Reiss (20 January 1943 – 26 January 2023) was an Anglican[1] priest[2] and author.[3]

Reiss was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School; Trinity College, Cambridge; and Westcott House, Cambridge. he was ordained deacon in 1969, and priest in 1970. After a curacy in St John's Wood he was assistant missioner at Rajshahi, Bangladesh then chaplain at his old college.[4] He was selection secretary for the ACCM from 1978 to 1985; team rector of Grantham from 1986 to 1996;[5] Archdeacon of Surrey from 1996[6] to 2005;[7] and canon treasurer of Westminster Abbey from 2005 until 2013.[8]

Reiss died on 26 January 2023, shortly after his 80th birthday.[9][10]

References
  1. Archdeacon says churches need bingo and markets to survive. 'Ruth Gledhill Religion Correspondent' The Times (London, England), Friday, 22 August 2003; pg. 3; Issue 67848
  2. Rowan Williams web-site
  3. Amongst others he has written "Say One for Me", 1992; "The Testing of Vocation: 100 years of ministry selection in the Church of England", 2013; and "Sceptical Christianity", 2016 > British Library website accessed 07:18 GMT 15 February 2017
  4. Crockfords (London, Church House, 1995) ISBN 0-7151-8088-6
  5. Grantham Matters
  6. Church news. The Times (London, England), Thursday, 21 December 1995; pg. 20; Issue 65456
  7. Church News. The Times (London, England), Wednesday, 26 January 2005; pg. 64
  8. "Reiss, Canon Robert Paul", Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016 ; online edn, Nov 2016 accessed 15 Feb 2017
  9. https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-news/former-sub-dean-canon-robert-reiss-dies-aged-80
  10. https://www.oldhabs.com/obituaries


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