Christopher George (priest)

Christopher Owen George (30 September 1891 – 8 September 1977) was Archdeacon of Suffolk from 1947[1] to 1961.[2]

George was educated at Ipswich School and Selwyn College, Cambridge; and ordained Deacon in 1914 and Priest in 1915.[3] After a curacy in Great Yarmouth he was Associate Secretary of Dr Barnardo's Homes from 1919 to 1923. He was an Assistant Master at his old school from 1923 to 1927; Curate of St Mary le Tower, Ipswich from 1923 to 1925; Vicar of St Augustine, Ipswich from, 1927 to 1934; Rector of , St Mary Stoke, Ipswich from 1934 to 1947; and Rector of Sproughton from 1947, in conjunction with his work as Archdeacon.[4]

References

"Ecclesiastical News", The Times (London, England), Saturday, 15 March 15, 1947, p. 6.
"Ecclesiastical News", The Times (London, England), Tuesday, 15 August 15, 1961, p. 10.
Crockford's Clerical Directory 1955-56 :London, OUP, 1956
"GEORGE, Ven. Christopher Owen", Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014, online ed., April 2014 accessed 14 January 2017.

Archdeacons of Suffolk
High Medieval	Roger de Beaufeu Walkelin Geoffrey Robert de Tywa Alexander de Walpole Roger Pincerna William de Horham William de Dunton John of Alvechurch Thomas Lenebaud Thomas de Skerning Sayerus
Late Medieval	Simon de Ely Alan de Ely William de Knapton John de Fenton Richard Lyng Michael Northburgh William de Fieschi Francis de St Maximo Hélie Cardinal de Talleyrand-Périgord John de Carleton William Graa de Trusthope Carleton John de Ufford John Aleyn John Clervaus Guillaume Cardinal Noellet Eleazario Cardinal de Sabrano Philippe Cardinal Valois d'Alençon Clervaus William de Malebys Thomas de Shirford Henry Sturdy Robert Foulmere John Thorpe John Franks Richard Beauchamp Henry Trevilian William Pykenham Nicholas Goldwell John Dolman Thomas Wynter Edmund Steward Richard Sampson John Skypp William Ryvell
Early modern	Elizeus Ferreys Robert Rugge Nicholas Wendon John Maplesden Robert Pearson Robert Bostock Richard Mileson Laurence Womack Godfrey King John Battely Humphrey Prideaux David Wilkins Richard Warren Henry Goodall John Strachey Henry Berners Thomas Ormerod
Late modern	Vincent Ryan, assistant bishop Robert Groome Joseph Woolley Richard Gibson Charles Lawrence William Everingham James Darling Thomas Wonnacott Christopher George Claud Scott Peter Hartley Donald Smith Terry Gibson Neil Robinson Geoffrey Arrand Judy Hunt Ian Morgan Jeanette Gosney Rich Henderson

Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich
St Edmundsbury Cathedral Bishop's House, Ipswich St Nicholas Centre, Ipswich Suffolk Guild of Ringers
Office holders	Martin Seeley, Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich Mike Harrison, Bishop suffragan of Dunwich AEO: Norman Banks, Bishop suffragan of Richborough & Rob Munro, Bishop suffragan of Ebbsfleet Joe Hawes, Dean of St Edmundsbury David Jenkins, Archdeacon of Sudbury Sally Gaze, Archdeacon for Rural Mission Rhiannon King, Archdeacon of Ipswich Rich Henderson, Archdeacon of Suffolk
Historic offices	Provost of St Edmundsbury (1929–2000; see Dean of St Edmundsbury)

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