Howard Root

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Howard Eugene Root (13 April 1926 – 19 November 2007) was an American-born British Anglican priest, theologian, and academic. He was Professor of Theology at the University of Southampton from 1966 to 1981, and Director of the Anglican Centre in Rome and Counsellor on Vatican affairs to Archbishop of Canterbury from 1981 to 1991.{{cite web |title=Root, Rev. Canon Howard Eugene |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-33107 |website=Who Was Who |publisher=Oxford University Press |accessdate=24 December 2018 |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U33107 |date=1 December 2016|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1 }}{{cite news |title=Canon Howard Root |url=https://www.thetimes.com/world/us-world/article/canon-howard-root-l5brc39jgzj |access-date=24 December 2018 |work=The Times |date=28 November 2007 |language=en}}{{cite news |title=Canon Howard Root |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1570592/Canon-Howard-Root.html |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=27 November 2007}}{{Crockford| surname = Root | forenames = Canon Howard Eugene | id = 38244 | accessed = 24 December 2018}}

Root was educated at the University of Southern California (BA, 1945), St Catherine's Society, Oxford (BA, 1951), Magdalene College, Cambridge (MA, 1953), and Magdalen College, Oxford (MA, 1970).Crockford's Clerical Directory, 99th Edition, 2006-07, p 697. He trained for ordination at Ripon Hall, Oxford, and was ordained deacon in 1953 and priest in 1954.Crockford's Clerical Directory, 99th Edition, 2006-07, p 697. He taught at Cambridge from 1953 to 1966, and was a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge from 1954 to 1966 and Dean of Emmanuel from 1956 to 1966.Crockford's Clerical Directory, 99th Edition, 2006-07, p 697. He was a delegated observer to the Second Vatican Council.Crockford's Clerical Directory, 99th Edition, 2006-07, p 697.