Obituaries

Obituary: Canon Peter Kenney

“IN THE end it is all about relationships,” Peter Kenney told me in the last few days of his life. “For so much, being present is enough,” he continued. He was still offering shaman-like wisdom from his sick bed. And I was listening and learning

25 Apr 2025

Obituary: Pope Francis

POPE FRANCIS, who died on Easter Monday, aged 88, after 12 years in office, and after greeting the crowds in St Peter’s Square on Easter Day, will be remembered for nurturing a more sympathetic and pastoral application of Roman Catholic teaching in response to real-life complexities and dilemmas

22 Apr 2025

Obituary: Nicolas Kynaston

IT WAS perhaps no surprise that, as a former Organist and Assistant Master of the Music at Westminster Cathedral, Nicolas Kynaston, who died on 26 March, aged 83, thought on a grand scale

17 Apr 2025

Recollections

17 Apr 2025

Obituary: The Rt Revd David Vunagi

11 Apr 2025

Obituary: John Norman

11 Apr 2025

Obituary: The Ven. Christopher Hawthorn

11 Apr 2025

Obituary: The Ven. Christopher Laurence

04 Apr 2025

Obituary: The Revd Professor Anne Bayley

28 Mar 2025

Obituary: The Revd Ken Anderson

28 Mar 2025

Obituary: David Iliff

28 Mar 2025

Obituary: Simon Lindley

21 Mar 2025

Obituary: Geoffrey Tattersall KC

14 Mar 2025

Obituary: Clive Billenness

14 Mar 2025

Obituary: The Revd Morgan Llewellyn

14 Mar 2025

Obituary: Canon Brian Pearce

28 Feb 2025

Obituary: Don Cupitt

14 Feb 2025

Obituary: Canon Bill Wright

07 Feb 2025

Recollections

07 Feb 2025

Obituary: Bishop Keith Rayner

31 Jan 2025

Obituary: The Revd Andrew Macintosh

31 Jan 2025

Obituary: William Kendall

24 Jan 2025

Obituary: Canon Timothy Tyndall

17 Jan 2025

Obituary: Sister Giovanna FSJM

17 Jan 2025

Obituary: Dr Ted Harrison

17 Jan 2025

Obituary: Michael Pilkington

17 Jan 2025

Obituary: The Revd Philip Hacking

10 Jan 2025

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