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Lift Every Heart: Collected Hymns 1961-1983 and Some Early Poems
316 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 1984
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Timothy Dudley-Smith
40 books2 followersBorn 26 December 1926 in Manchester, England.
Ordained deacon 1950, priest 1951
Archdeacon of Norwich, 1973-81
Bishop of Thetford, 1981-91
Since 1992 in retirement at 9 Ashlands, Ford, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP4 6DY, England.
As a hymn writer, has published c. 400 hymn texts (no music, but many to well-known tunes) originally in four single-author collections, now out of print, but subsumed into a larger collected edition, A House of Praise, 2003 and the three supplementary collections from the Oxford University Press. Many such hymns appear in published hymnals throughout the English-speaking world and in translation. He is an honorary vice-president of the Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland, a Fellow of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada, and a Fellow of the Royal School of Church Music. In 2003 he was awarded an OBE 'for services to hymnody', and in 2009 an honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD) from the University of Durham.
Ordained deacon 1950, priest 1951
Archdeacon of Norwich, 1973-81
Bishop of Thetford, 1981-91
Since 1992 in retirement at 9 Ashlands, Ford, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP4 6DY, England.
As a hymn writer, has published c. 400 hymn texts (no music, but many to well-known tunes) originally in four single-author collections, now out of print, but subsumed into a larger collected edition, A House of Praise, 2003 and the three supplementary collections from the Oxford University Press. Many such hymns appear in published hymnals throughout the English-speaking world and in translation. He is an honorary vice-president of the Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland, a Fellow of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada, and a Fellow of the Royal School of Church Music. In 2003 he was awarded an OBE 'for services to hymnody', and in 2009 an honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD) from the University of Durham.
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