David Howell (chaplain)
{{Short description|British priest}}
{{Infobox Christian leader
| type = priest
| honorific_prefix = The Reverend
| name = David Howell
| honorific_suffix =
| church = Church of England
| ordination = 1959 (deacon), 1960 (priest)
| ordained_by = Stretton Reeve
| birth_name = David Howell
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1929|5|31}}
| birth_place = London, England
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2017|11|11|1929|5|31}}
| death_place = Wellington, Somerset, England
| nationality = British
| religion = Anglicanism
| education =
| alma_mater = {{unbulleted list|Clifton Theological College}}
}}
David Howell (31 May 1929 – 11 November 2017) was an Anglican priest and writer. The thrust of his ministry was in the area of health and healing, including posts as Director and Chaplain of the Divine Healing Mission from 1981 to 1989 and Director of the Council for Health and Healing from 1991 to 1993.{{Crockford| surname=Howell | forenames=David | id=23326}}
Personal life and education
Howell was born in London, England, on 31 May 1929. He trained for ordination at Clifton Theological College and graduated in 1956. Howell had Parkinson's disease for some years before his death. He died in Wellington, Somerset on 11 November 2017.
Ordained ministry
Howell was ordained as a deacon in 1959 and as a priest in 1960, at Lichfield Cathedral by Bishop Stretton Reeve. He began his career as a curate at St. Martin's Church, Tipton from 1959 to 1962. He was then vicar of St Paul's Church, West Bromwich from 1962 to 1971.{{cite book |author= |date= 1991|title=Crockford's clerical directory: a directory of the clergy of the Church of England, the Church in Wales, the Scottish Episcopal Church, the Church of Ireland. |url=https://archive.org/details/crockfordscleric0000unse_e5s5 |via=Internet Archive |publisher=Church House Publishing |page=358}} In 1971, he moved for a further decade to St John's Church, Deptford, where he oversaw major building works alongside his ministry, from 1971 to 1981.
In 1981, Howell was given the post of Director and Chaplain of the Divine Healing Mission.{{#tag:ref|The Divine Healing Mission (later renamed the Crowhurst Christian Healing Centre) was a revival of the Ministry of Healing by the Church of England. It is located in Crowhurst, East Sussex.|group="Note"}} He left the Divine Healing Mission in 1989 and retired from ecclesiastical duties the following year.{{cite journal |last=Crook |first=Colin |date=Spring 2018 |title=David Howell Chaplain at CCHC 1981 - 1989 |url=https://www.crowhursthealing.org.uk/downloads/Crowhurst-spring-2018.pdf |journal=Crowhurst Christian Healing Centre |page=6 |access-date=22 August 2023}} From 1991 to 1993, he was Director of the Churches' Council for Health and Healing. From 1993 to 2000, he was appointed to the Diocese of Bath and Wells as the Honorary Diocesan Advisor on Health and Healing.{{cite book |author= |date=2007 |title=Crockford's clerical directory 2008/2009 |url=https://archive.org/details/crockfordscleric0000unse_z6c7 |via=Internet Archive |publisher=Church House Publishing |page=406 |isbn=9780715110300}} Later in life, he led tours and lectures, many on architecture, for the University of the Third Age.{{cite news |last=Randall |first=Colin |date= 15 December 2017 |title=Obituary: The Revd David Howell |url=https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2017/15-december/gazette/obituaries/obituary-the-revd-david-howell |work=Church Times |access-date=22 August 2023}}
Howell published several books with the Divine Healing Mission, including Healing in the communion (1987), Anointing with Oil (1999), The Armour of God (1999) and Healing & Wholeness in the New Testament.{{cite book |last=Jenkins |first=Timothy |date=1999 |title=Religion in English Everyday Life: An Ethnographic Approach |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XS4WqM8_QwgC |via=Google Books |publisher=Berghahn Books |page=236 |isbn=9781571817693}} In 1995, he wrote The Pain of Parting: Understanding the Grief Journey, a guide through the grief journey for the bereaved, in which he incorporated his own knowledge as an ecclesiastic and his experiences of bereavement.[https://grovebooks.co.uk/collections/all/david-howell Author: Revd David Howell] at Grove Books
Bibliography
- {{cite book |last=Howell |first=David |date=1987 |title=Healing in the communion |url=https://www.bokborsen.se/view/David-Howell/Healing-In-The-Communion/11849283 |via=Bokbörsen |publisher=Divine Healing Mission}}
- {{cite book |last=Howell |first=David |date=1993 |title=The Pain of Parting: Understanding the Grief Journey |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X-04AAAACAAJ |via=Google Books |publisher=Grove Books |isbn=9781851742561}}
- {{cite book |last=Howell |first=David |date=1999 |title=Anointing with Oil |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ez40AgAACAAJ |via=Google Books |publisher=Divine Healing Mission |isbn=9781902991009}}
- {{cite book |last=Howell |first=David |date=1999 |title=The Armour of God |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ir3CAAAACAAJ |via=Google Books |publisher=Divine Healing Mission |isbn=9781902991016}}
- {{cite book |last=Howell |first=David |title=Healing & Wholeness in the New Testament |url=https://www.bokborsen.se/view/David-Howell/Healing-Wholeness-In-The-New-Testament/942013 |via=Bokbörsen |publisher=Divine Healing Mission}}
Explanatory notes
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