\"Archbishop of Canterbury\" Geoffrey Fisher Signed 3X5 B&W Photo JG Autographs For Sale

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\"Archbishop of Canterbury\" Geoffrey Fisher Signed 3X5 B&W Photo JG Autographs:
$104.99

Up for sale the "99th Archbishop of Canterbury" Geoffrey Fisher Signed 3X5 B&W Photo  Included in this offering is the correspondance letter and envelope. This item is certified authentic by JG

Autographs and comes with their Certificate of Authenticity.

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Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Baron Fisher 1887 – 15 September 1972) was an English Anglican priest, and 99th Archbishop of Canterbury,

serving from 1945 to 1961. From a long line of parish priests, Fisher was

educated at Marlborough College and Exeter College, Oxford. He

achieved high academic honours but was not interested in a university career.

He was ordained priest in 1913, and taught at Marlborough for three years; in

1914, aged 27, he was appointed headmaster of Repton School where he served for 18 years. In 1932,

having left Repton, he was made Bishop of Chester. In 1939 he accepted the post of Bishop of London, the third most senior post in the Church of England. His term of office began shortly after the

start of the Second World War, and his

organising skills were required to keep the diocese functioning despite the

devastation of the London Blitz. In 1944, the

Archbishop of Canterbury, William Temple died

suddenly, and Fisher was chosen to succeed him. He served from 1945 to 1961.

One of the main themes of his time in office was church unity. He worked

continually to build bridges to other Christian churches, and in 1960 became

the first Archbishop of Canterbury to meet a Pope since the English Reformation, more

than four centuries earlier. He overhauled the administration of the Church of

England, strengthened international ties with other Anglican churches, and

spoke out on a range of topical issues, from divorce to homosexuality, and

the Suez crisis to nuclear disarmament. Theologically, Fisher

was nearer the Evangelical wing of

the Church than the Anglo-Catholic, but

strongly believed that neither had a monopoly of religious truth. His

predecessor and his successor at Canterbury – Temple and Michael Ramsey – were known for scholarly spirituality;

Fisher was distinguished by a simple faith combined with outstanding organisational

flair. In 1961 he retired from Canterbury and for the first time in his life

became a parish priest, serving as honorary curate of a country parish in Dorset. He died in 1972, aged 85.

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