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Bishop Rowan Williams (Archbishop Emeritus of Canterbury)
May 13, 2023 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
“Contemplative life and urban mission”
We are delighted to welcome back the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, who delighted us with back in 2014 with his lecture on the Gospel of John. This lecture addresses some intriguing issues in modern contemplative spirituality and its missional opportunities. Bishop Rowan tells us, “We will look briefly at two twentieth century figures – Mother Maria Skobtsova and Madeleine Delbrêl – who attempted to live out a contemplative vocation in the setting of modern urban poverty, and will ask what we can learn from them about integrating contemplation and action.”
Venue: St Mark’s Church, Leeds Road, Harrogate (& Zoom option)
Date: Saturday 13th May, 10.00 – 12.00 noon with breakfast available from 9.30 am
Booking: STILL ONLY £8.00 per session (price held since 2013) including a continental breakfast and mid-morning refreshments; students: £5 per lecture; under 18s free.
Fees payable on the day by contactless card, cheque (to Harrogate School of Theology and Mission) or preferably in advance by the online booking system EventBrite
Zoom live-stream of lectures: £5 per person, under 18s free.
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Speaker Biography
Bishop Rowan Williams (Baron Williams of Oystermouth) is a Welsh Anglican bishop, theologian and poet. He was the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury, a position he held from December 2002 to December 2012. Previously the Bishop of Monmouth and Archbishop of Wales, Williams was the first Archbishop of Canterbury in modern times not to be appointed from within the Church of England.
Having spent much of his earlier career as an academic at the universities of Cambridge and Oxford successively, Williams speaks three languages and reads at least nine. After standing down as Archbishop, Williams took up the position of Chancellor of the University of South Wales in 2014 and served as Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge between 2013 and 2020. Now retired, Bishop Rowan is much in demand as an author and speaker.