biography
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| lived:
| (1921– )
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| biography:
| Ecumenical leader, born in Roseau, Dominica. After studying law, and pastoring a Methodist church in Haiti, he became secretary of the youth department of the World Council of Churches (1954). Appointed Methodist Missionary Society (London) field secretary for Africa and the West Indies (1960–7), and chairman of the World Student Christian Federation (1960–8), he was promoted director of World Mission and Evangelism (1967–72), then became general secretary (1972–84) of the World Council of Churches. |
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