Kenneth Cragg

The Right Reverend

Kenneth Cragg
Assistant Bishop of Jerusalem
ChurchChurch of England
DioceseJerusalem
In office1969–1974
SuccessorIshaq Musaad (as Bishop of Egypt)
Other postActing Bishop of Egypt (1972–1974)
Orders
Ordination1935 (deacon)
1937 (priest)
Consecration1972
Personal details
BornAlbert Kenneth Cragg
(1913-03-08)8 March 1913
Died13 November 2012(2012-11-13) (aged 99)
DenominationAnglicanism

Albert Kenneth Cragg (8 March 1913 – 13 November 2012) was an Anglican bishop and scholar who commented widely on religious topics for more than fifty years, most notably Christian–Muslim relations.

Early life and education

Cragg was born on 8 March 1913. He was educated at Blackpool Grammar School and Jesus College, Oxford. He was awarded the Grafton Scholarship in 1934.

Ordained ministry

Cragg was ordained in 1937. He began his career with a curacy at Higher Tranmere Parish Church, Birkenhead after which he was Chaplain of All Saints', Beirut, Rector of Longworth, Professor of Arabic and Islamics at Hartford Seminary, Connecticut, and then Warden of St Augustine's College, Canterbury.

Episcopal ministry

Cragg was elevated to the episcopate as Assistant Bishop of Jerusalem in 1969.

There was at that time no Bishop of Egypt, and Cragg was given responsibility for the oversight of the Anglican communities in that country, until, in 1974, as a result of the reorganisation of the Anglican Church in the Middle East, a new Bishop was appointed.

He was then appointed Reader in Religious Studies, at Sussex University, following which he was Vicar of Helme (and an Assistant Bishop within the Wakefield Diocese).

In 1982, nearing the Church of England's newly laid-down compulsory retirement at the age of seventy, Cragg retired to the Diocese of Oxford.

Personal life

He married, in 1940, Melita Arnold. She died in 1989.

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References

  1. ↑ The Times, Monday, 12 Aug 1963; p. 7; Issue 55777; col B Anglican Mission To The World (Toronto Congress) "The political frontier"-The Rt Dr Kenneth Craggs
  2. ↑ The Times. No. 61142. 27 January 1982. p. 10, col. E. It would be odd to imagine that Palestinians would forget in three decades what Jews remembered for 18 centuries {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ↑ Interview with Bishop Cragg Archived 5 July 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ↑ The Times, Monday, 1 October 1934; pg. 7; Issue 46873; col C Ecclesiastical News Grafton Scholarship
  5. ↑ Wound up 1996/7 Archived 6 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory2008/2009 Lambeth, Church House Publishing ISBN 978-0-7151-1030-0
  7. ↑ The Times, Thursday, 18 December 1969; pg. 10; Issue 57746; col E Church News Canon Appointed Bishop
  8. ↑ "Bishops of the Diocese of Egypt". Official website of the Episcopal Anglican Diocese of Egypt. Retrieved 8 April 2011. "The Rt Rev Kenneth Cragg". The Telegraph. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
  9. ↑ During which time he also served as an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Chichester > Who's Who 2008: London, A & C Black, 2008 ISBN 978-0-7136-8555-8
  10. ↑ "The Rt Rev Kenneth Cragg". The Telegraph. Retrieved 27 November 2012.