Hilchey was church's former General Secretary.One of his favourite biblical texts, Archdeacon Harry Hilchey once said, was "Jesus went." Jesus went to "people. He reached out to people. He didn't wait for them to come to him. Archdeacon Hilchey, who died on Nov. 17, sought to emulate that example and was known as someone who, in the words of retired bishop Peter Mason Sir Peter Mason KBE is Chairman of Thames Water and senior non-executive director of BAE Systems plc.[1][2] He has also held senior positions at Norwest Holst, BICC plc and Balfour Beatty.[2] References 1. ^ Harrison, Michael. , "befriended the lost, shepherded the faithful, and counseled the famous." Ordained or·dain tr.v. or·dained, or·dain·ing, or·dains 1. a. To invest with ministerial or priestly authority; confer holy orders on. b. To authorize as a rabbi. 2. in the diocese of Toronto in 1944, Archdeacon Hilchey served the Anglican Church of Canada in many capacities: in 1974 as deputy prolocutor PROLOCUTOR. In the ecclesiastical law, signifies a president or chairman of a convocation. (an officer of General Synod The General Synod is the title of the governing body of some church organizations. Church of England In the Church of England, General Synod was instituted in 1970 and is the culmination of a process of rediscovering self-government for the Church of England that had ), from 1975 to 1979 as prolocutor and from 1979 to 1987 as General Secretary. Born in 1922, Archdeacon Hilchey began life in Popes Harbour, N.S. In 1941, he graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in philosophy from Dalhousie University. He received a master's degree in philosophy from the University of Toronto Research at the University of Toronto has been responsible for the world's first electronic heart pacemaker, artificial larynx, single-lung transplant, nerve transplant, artificial pancreas, chemical laser, G-suit, the first practical electron microscope, the first cloning of T-cells, , and later studied theology at Wycliffe College. Upon his ordination to the priesthood, he served in the dioceses of Toronto, Nova Scotia and Montreal, where he was principal of the Montreal Diocesan Theological College from 1974 to 1978. He attended at least a dozen meetings of General Synod as a member and he also served on the National Executive Committee (now the Council of General Synod, the national church's governing body between General Synods). Upon his retirement as the national church's general secretary, he served Toronto's Wycliffe College as director of development and communications, acting principal and archivist ARCHIVIST. One to whose care the archives have been confided. . He also took on interim ministry appointments in the diocese. Archdeacon Hilchey possessed "a life-long fascination with people," Bishop Mason wrote in the foreword of Ministry in Many Places, a recently-released book about Archdeacon Hilchey's life that his friends had urged him to write. MARITES N. SISON STAFF WRITER |
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