British Christians by Type: Black British Churchpeople, British Clergy, British Monks, British Saints, John Sentamu, Arthur Peacocke

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 121. Not illustrated. Chapters: Black British Churchpeople, British Clergy, British Monks, British Saints, John Sentamu, Arthur Peacocke, Kenneth Cracknell, John Bainbridge Webster, Ian Bradley, Thomas Nettleship Staley, Eric Waldram Kemp, Charles David Badham, H. Wheeler Robinson, Robert Wedderburn, Constantine, Wilfred Wood, John Bridger, Edward Knapp-Fisher, Robin Ward, Walter of Oxford, Abraham Colfe, Moses Harvey, Timothy Gorringe, Thomas Stanage, John Goodwyn Barmby, George Gutteres, June Boyce-Tillman, Samuel Hinds, James Parkes, John Cotterell, William Dallinger, Gabriel Hebert, John Lloyd, William Wilks, Thomas Huyck, John Higginson, Henry Hawkes, John Andrew, Simon Aleyn, Saint Aldate, Goneri of Brittany. Excerpt: John Tucker Mugabi Sentamu (pronounced: SEN-ta-moo; born 10 June 1949) is the 97th Archbishop of York, Metropolitan of the province of York, and Primate of England. He is the second most senior cleric in the Church of England, after the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams. Sentamu was born in 1949 in a village near Kampala, Uganda, the sixth of thirteen children. He read law at Makerere University, Kampala, and practised as an advocate of the High Court of Uganda. Dr Sentamu practised both law at the Bar and at the Bench until 1974. He incurred the wrath of the dictator Idi Amin because of his judicial independence and was locked up for 90 days, three weeks after his marriage. In a speech in 2007 he described how during that time he had been kicked around like a football and beaten terribly, saying the temptation to give up hope of release was always present. In 1974 he fled to the United Kingdom. He read theology at Selwyn College, Cambridge (BA 1976, MA 1979, PhD 1984). He trained for the priesthood at Ridley Hall, Cambridge, being ordained a priest in 1979. His doctoral thesis is entitled Some aspe...