BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//achurchnearyou.com//eventfeed//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-TIMEZONE:UTC BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Saturday 13th September\, 11:30am Holy Eucharist for Lancelot Andr ewes DTSTART:20250913T103000Z DTEND:20250913T113000Z DTSTAMP:20260526T005442Z UID:12206882025-09-13 10:30:00+00:00achurchnearyou CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Lancelot Andrewes was born in 1555 near All Hallows\, Barking\ , by the Tower of London. He was an English bishop and scholar\, who held high positions in the Church of England during the tumultuous reigns of El izabeth I and James I. During the latter\, he served successively as Bisho p of Chichester\, of Ely\, and of Winchester and oversaw the translation o f the King James Version of the Bible.\n\nIn 1571\, at the age of 16\, he was sent to study at Pembroke Hall\, Cambridge\, and graduated with a Bach elor of Arts degree\, proceeding to a Master of Arts degree 7 years later. His academic reputation spread so quickly that on the foundation in 1571 of Jesus College\, Oxford he was named in the charter as one of the foundi ng scholars. In 1576 he was elected a fellow of Pembroke College and in 15 80 he was ordained a priest. Once a year he would spend a month vacation w ith his parents and would use the time to learn a foreign language.\n\nDur ing the reign of Queen Elizabeth I\, he became vicar of St Giles\, Cripple gate\, in the City of London\, and developed a reputation as a preacher. H e also firmly vindicated the reformed character of the Church of England\, although he was no Calvinist and regularly criticised Calvinist doctrine and decried the Calvinistic notes in the Geneva translation of the Bible. By March 1590\, he had become chaplain to Elizabeth I\, where he continued to preach outspoken sermons\, even in front of the Queen. \n\nOn the acce ssion of James I\, Andrewes rose into great favour. He assisted at the cor onation\, and his name was first on the list of those appointed to compile the Authorized (‘King James’) Version of the Bible\, which was commis sioned in 1604 and published in 1611. Here he took charge of the first boo ks of the Old Testament (Genesis to 2 Kings) and acted as a sort of genera l editor for the whole project.\n\nIn November 1605 he was consecrated Bis hop of Chichester\, and\, following the Gunpowder Plot in the same month\, preached a sermon to be presented to the king on the need to celebrate de liverance from what could have been a disaster for English democracy. \n\n In 1617 he accompanied James I to Scotland with a view to persuading the S cots that they were better off with a church system based on Bishops\, rat her than their preferred Presbyterianism. As history shows\, he was not en tirely successful in this venture. In 1619 he was made Bishop of Wincheste r\, a diocese that he administered with great success.\n\nLancelot Andrewe s died on 25 September 1626\, in Winchester Palace\, the bishop's residenc e in Southwark\, and buried in St Saviour's Church (now Southwark Cathedra l\, then in the Diocese of Winchester). His tomb can be found immediately behind the high altar. He is commemorated each year on 25th September in t he Anglican lectionary. \n\nHe is chiefly remembered for his style of prea ching. But his major contribution to Anglicanism is in the way he position ed the church as equally removed from the Protestant and the Roman positio ns. He had a clear sense of proportion and maintained a distinction betwe en what is fundamental to the faith and what is subsidiary. He embraced th e Thirty-nine Articles of Anglicanism and emphasised a positive and constr uctive statement of the Anglican position.\n\nPicture above: Lancelot Andr ewes in a stained glass window in Chester Cathedral cloister by Mum's taxi . This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. LOCATION:Salinas Anglican Congregation URL:https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/8488/service-and-events/events/1 220688/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR