Robert Van de Weyer
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Robert Van de Weyer (born 4 December 1950) is an English writer and priest.
Early life[edit]
After leaving school Van de Weyer worked as a night porter in a brothel in London, and as a butler in a stately home in Yorkshire. He travelled overland to India, where he studied Hindu philosophy, and taught Maths in a village school. He became Christian living in an ashram that regards Christ as the Guru.[1] He spent a year trekking across the mountains of Ethiopia visiting monasteries. [2]
Career[edit]
From 1977-94 he was warden of Little Gidding, creating a therapeutic community for adults with mental problems.[3] In that period he also taught Green Economics at Anglia Ruskin University, and published Wickwyn: a Vision of the Future, which won in 1987 the Winifred Mary Stanbrook Prize.[4] He was ordained priest in the Church of England in 1982, and served as unpaid priest of Upton, near Huntingdon from then until 2011. Also since 1990 he has been a regular preacher at the Stamford Free Church.[5] He contributed to the revival of interest in Celtic spirituality, publishing Celtic Fire in 1990.[6] In 1990 he travelled to the Bari area of South Sudan, then cut off by war, setting up a scheme to send medicines and Bibles there; he was briefly held hostage by the SPLA.
He was founder chairman of the Cambridgeshire Historic Churches Trust. From 1986 until 2015 he broadcast weekly on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.[7] He is now an associate priest at St Clement’s in Cambridge, where he produces a daily email letter Dearly Beloved.[8]
Personal life[edit]
In 1971 he married Sarah, and they have two children, Aidan (born 1975) and Sylvain (born 1977), and four grandchildren. He is descended from Sylvain Van de Weyer, briefly prime minister of Belgium, and is related to the Ranee of Sarawak and the Duchess of York.[9]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Robert Van De Weyer Books | World of Books". www.wob.com.
- ↑ "The monastic community of Ethiopia | Ethiopian Review - Ethiopian News".
- ↑ "History – Friends of Little Gidding – Little Gidding Church".
- ↑ https://spckpublishing.co.uk/pub/media/preview/9780281062102_preview.pdf/
- ↑ "Stamford Free Church | About us". www.stamfordfreechurch.co.uk.
- ↑ "Celtic Fire by Robert Van De Weyer: 9780385419581 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books". PenguinRandomhouse.com.
- ↑ "BBC Radio Cambridgeshire - The Great Outdoors, 31/01/2010". BBC.
- ↑ http://ship-of-fools.com/mystery/2013/2567.html/
- ↑ https://www.thepeerage.com/p5553.htm/
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