Basil Moss (priest)

Very Rev. Basil Stanley Moss (7 October 1918 – 24 March 2006) was Provost of Birmingham Cathedral from 1972 to 1986.

He was born in Salford as the son of Canon H. G. Moss and was educated at Canon Slade Grammar School, Bolton and Queen's College, Oxford.

He was ordained as a priest in 1943 and was a tutor and sub-warden at Lincoln Theological College from 1945 to 1951. In 1950, he married Rachel Margaret Bailey. Appointed as senior tutor at St. Catharine's Cumberland Lodge, Windsor in 1951, he moved to be vicar of St. Nathaniel's Church, Bristol in 1953. Seven years later he became a Residentiary Canon of Bristol Cathedral, until in 1966 he was appointed chief secretary of the Advisory Council Churches Ministry.

As Provost of Birmingham Cathedral (1972–86), he also was chairman of both the Birmingham Community Relations Council (1973–81) and the Birmingham Council of Christian Churches (1977–79)

Publications

Moss, Basil S., Clergy Training Today, 1964
Moss, Basil S. (ed.), Crisis for Baptism, 1965

References

Birmingham Post and Mail Year Book and Who's Who, 1998, Kingslea Press, ISBN 1-900753-05-7

Religious titles
Preceded by George Sinker	Provost of Birmingham Cathedral 1972–1986	Succeeded by Peter Austin Berry

Provosts and Deans of Birmingham

Provosts	Hamilton Baynes Harold Richards Michael Clarke George Sinker Basil Moss Peter Berry Gordon Mursell (became Dean)

Deans	Gordon Mursell Robert Wilkes Catherine Ogle

Diocese of Birmingham

St Philip's Cathedral, Birmingham Bishop's Croft, Birmingham Diocesan Office, Birmingham

Office holders	David Urquhart, Bishop of Birmingham Anne Hollinghurst, Bishop suffragan of Aston AEO: Jonathan Goodall, Bishop suffragan of Ebbsfleet Catherine Ogle, Dean of Birmingham Hayward Osborne, Archdeacon of Birmingham Simon Heathfield, Archdeacon of Aston

Historic offices	Provost of Birmingham (1931–2000; see Dean of Birmingham)

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 51177711

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