Rev Canon John Albert Douglas
John Albert Douglas (1868(1) – 3 July 1956) was a priest of the Church
of England and a major figure in Anglican–Orthodox relations in the
20th century. He was the son of John Douglas and Elizabeth
Arthur of Cowes, he was born in Portsmouth.
Douglas was a member of the Fellowship of Saint Alban and Saint
Sergius and vicar of St Michael Paternoster Royal from 1933 to 1952.
He had served previously, from 1909 to 1933, at St Luke's Church,
Camberwell, in the Diocese of Southwark.
After schooling at Chatham House and Dulwich College he went to the
University of London where he graduated with a 1st class BA in 1890.
Ordained Deacon in 1894 and Priest in 1895 he served as curate at
Newark from 1984-1897, in Penge from 1877-1901 and at St Stephen,
Lewisham from 1901–1904.
In 1904 he went to Constantinople and was Acting Chaplain the
British Embassy until his return to London in 1906. In 1907 he was
Curate at St Benet and All Saints, Kentish Town, and then in 1909
became Vicar of St Luke, Camberwell, a post he held until 1933. In
that year he moved to be Rector of St Michael Paternoster Royal and
St Martin Vintry with All Hallows Great and Less were he stayed
until 1953.
During the 1st World War he was Chaplain of the First Surrey Rifles
Territorial Army and served as a lecturer in France.
In 1906 he helped to found Anglican and Eastern Churches Association
and Society of St Willibrord. In 1925 both he and his brother
Charles helped to organise a great service in Westminster Abbey on
29 June to commemorate the Council of Nikaea. Representatives of all
but one of the Eastern Orthodox Churches came, along with those of
many other Churches. In the evening, there was a banquet at the
Holborn Restaurant, presided over by Lord Selborne. The following
year, the Nicaean Club was founded and for many years John Douglas
played an important part in it. The Society of the Faith helped to
fund it by means of grants. John Douglas also organised a series of
ecumenical lectures at St Mary le Strand in London.
His interest in the Eastern Church showed in his role as the
Librarian of Archbishop’s Eastern Committee from 1922-36 and in 1935
he became General Secretary, Church of England Council for Foreign
Relations, a post he held until 1945. He attended the Stockholm
(1925), Lausanne (1927), and of Oxford and Edinburgh (1937)
Ecumenical Conferences. An illustrated booklet he wrote in 1915 on
Russian Orthodox worship can be found here.
He was an active member of the University of London, a Member of the
Senate from 1907, Deputy Vice-Chancellor from 1931 and Chairman of
Convocation and Member of the University Court from 1939.
And in 1905 he, along with his brother, founded the
Society of the Faith.
Canon Douglas was awarded a Lambeth DD in 1939.
He died in 1956.
Note:
1. Some sources say born 1869
2. The portrait belongs to the Society of the Faith and hang in the
Douglas Room in Faith House. It was painted by William Lawson
Source
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