- John Brown
John Brown was a 19th-century architect in Norwich, in the county of Norfolk, England. He is best known for his churches, especially cathedrals. He was also, along with his two sons, the surveyor for Norwich Cathedral. Some of his architectural works: *St. Peter: Lowestoft, Suffolk; built 1833; white brick with no tower, Carpenter's Gothic style; demolished circa 1974 *St. - John Marshall
John Marshall (or Marshal was a Bishop of Llandaff in South Wales. John was a fellow of Merton College, Oxford and a canon of Windsor. On 6 September 1478, he was consecrated Bishop of Llandaff. He is well remembered for having repaired the damage done to the cathedral during Owain Glyndŵr's reign. He also erected a new bishop's throne and a reredos, parts of which survives. - John Ireland
John Ireland (September 11, 1838 - September 25, 1918) was the third bishop and first archbishop of St. Paul, Minnesota (1888-1918). - Lee Dorrian
Lee Dorrian is a singer from Coventry, England. Originally the editor/publisher of the Cov punk fanzine "Committed Suicide" he then went on to be the singer and lyricist with Napalm Death and recorded one and a half albums with them, namely the second half of "Scum" and "From Enslavement to Obliteration".He left the band after the "Mentally Murdered" EP was released which he also appeared on. He first used a brutal death grunt style of singing, … - Saint Agnes
Saint Agnes is a virgin martyr and saint of the Roman Catholic Church and Eastern Catholic Churches. She is also acknowledged in the Church of England and the Anglican Communion as well as in Eastern Orthodoxy. She is one of seven women, excluding the Blessed Virgin, commemorated by name in the Canon of the Mass. She is the patron saint of chastity, gardeners, girls, engaged couples, rape victims and virgins. - George Gilbert Scott
Sir George Gilbert Scott (13 July 1811 - 27 March, 1878) was an English architect of the Victorian Age, chiefly associated with the design, building and renovation of churches, cathedrals and workhouses. Born in Gawcott, Buckinghamshire, Scott was the son of a clergyman and grandson of the biblical commentator Thomas Scott. He studied architecture as a pupil of James Edmeston and from 1832 to 1834, worked as an assistant to Henry Roberts. - Gentile da Fabriano
Gentile da Fabriano was an Italian painter known for his participation in the International Gothic style. Gentile was born in or near Fabriano, in the Marche. His mother died some time before 1380 and his father, Niccolò di Giovanni Massi, retired to a monastery in the same year, where he died in 1385. He worked in various places in central Italy, mostly in Tuscany. His best known works are his "Adoration of the Magi" (1423) and "Flight into Egypt". - Thomas Fuller
Thomas Fuller (March 8, 1823 - September 28, 1898) was a Canadian architect. He was born in Bath, England where he trained as an architect. Living in Bath and London he did a number of projects. In 1845 he left for Antigua, where he spent two years working on a new cathedral before emigrating to Canada in 1857. Settling in Toronto, Ontario he formed a partnership with Chilion Jones with Fuller responsible for design work. - Maxim
Bishop Maxim (Vasilijevic) was enthroned as bishop of the Diocese of Western America of the Serbian Orthodox Church on July 30, 2006. Previously, he was the Bishop of Hum, Vicar bishop in the Metropolitanate of Dabro-Bosna, in Republic of Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is a professor of patrology at the Orthodox Theological Faculty in Belgrade. He was also was professor at Orthodox Theological Faculty in Srbinje, Republic of Serbia, BiH. He was enthroned by Bp. - Zoltán Kodály
Zoltán Kodály, (approximate pronunciation, Zol-tan Koddah-ee) (December 16, 1882 - March 6, 1967) was a Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, educator, linguist and philosopher. Though born in Kecskemét, Kodály spent most of his childhood in Galánta and Nagyszombat (now Trnava, Slovakia). His father was a stationmaster and keen amateur musician, and Kodály learned to play the violin as a child. He also sang in a cathedral choir and wrote music, … - Flor Peeters
Flor Peeters (July 4, 1903 - July 4, 1986) was a Belgian composer, organist and teacher. Born and raised in Tielen, he was the youngest child in a family of eleven. At sixteen, Peeters began his studies at the Lemmens Institute in Mechelen, where he studied with Lodewijk Mortelmans, Jules van Nuffel and Oscar Depuydt. Depuydt was well known for his collaboration with the Desmet brothers on the first set of Gregorian accompaniments produced by the Lemmens Institute. - Patrick Hamilton
Patrick Hamilton (1504 - February 29, 1528) was a Scottish churchman and Reformer. The second son of Sir Patrick Hamilton, well known in Scottish chivalry, and of Catherine Stewart, daughter of Alexander, Duke of Albany, second son of James II of Scotland, he was born in the diocese of Glasgow, probably at his father's estate of Stanehouse in Lanarkshire. He was most likely educated at Linlithgow. In 1517 he was appointed titular abbot of Ferne, … - Auguste Perret
Auguste Perret (February 12, 1874 - February 25, 1954) was a French architect and a leader and specialist in concrete construction. In 2005 his post-WWII reconstruction of Le Havre was declared by UNESCO one of the World Heritage Sites. He was born in Ixelles, Belgium. He was the brother of the architect Gustave Perret. He worked on a new interpretation of the neo-classical style. He continued to carry the banner of nineteenth century rationalism after Viollet-le-Duc. - Munchin
St. Munchin, called "the Wise," was traditionally the first bishop of Limerick, Ireland. He is patron saint of the diocese of Limerick. It is also believed that he may not have not been a bishop, as he is commonly known as "Maincin", meaning "little monk." He may have been born in County Clare. Tradition holds that St. Munchin was the first bishop of Limerick and he founded a cathedral which remained the principal church of the diocese until Donal O'Brien, … - Barry Tuckwell
Professor Barry Tuckwell, AC, OBE, (born March 5, 1931) is an Australian French horn player who spent much of his working life in the UK. - Louis-Claude Daquin
Louis-Claude Daquin (or d'Acquin), (July 4, 1694 - June 15, 1772) was a French composer of Jewish birth writing in the Baroque and Galant styles. He was a virtuoso organist and harpsichordist. Louis-Claude Daquin was born in Paris, to a converted Jewish family from Carpentras originating from Italy (where their name was D'Acquino). One of his great-uncles was a professor of Hebrew at the College de France. - John Peckham
John Peckham or Pecham (died December, 1292), was Archbishop of Canterbury in the years 1279-1292. Peckham, probably a native of Sussex, received his early education from the Cluniac monks of Lewes. About 1250, he joined the Franciscan order and studied in their Oxford convent. Shortly afterwards he proceeded to the University of Paris, where he took his degree under St Bonaventura and became regent in theology. - John Britton
John Britton (1771-1857) was an English antiquary, born on 7 July 1771 at Kington St. Michael, near Chippenham. His parents were in humble circumstances, and he was left an orphan at an early age. At sixteen he went to London and was apprenticed to a wine merchant. Prevented by ill-health from serving his full term, he found himself adrift in the world, without money or friends. In his fight with poverty he was put to strange shifts, … - John Of Shanghai And San Francisco
Saint John (Maximovitch) of Shanghai and San Francisco was a noted Eastern Orthodox ascetic and hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR) who was active in the mid-20th century. He was a pastor and spiritual father of high reputation, a Fool-for-Christ, and a reputed wonderworker to whom was attributed great powers of prophecy, clairvoyance and healing. - James Gillespie Graham
James Gillespie Graham was a Scottish architect, born in Dunblane. He is most notable for his work in the Scottish Gothic style (sometimes called Scottish baronial), as at Ayton Castle. His work was heavily influenced by that of Augustus Pugin. Graham designed principally country houses and churches. He is also well known for his interior design, his most noted work in this respect being that at Taymouth Castle and Hopetoun House. His principal works include St. - John Scott Whiteley
John Scott Whiteley is an English organist. He made his debut at the Royal Festival Hall in London in 1983 at the 5.55 series of Recitals. He has performed extensively around the world and since 1985 has undertaken an annual tour of the USA. He has performed in most major UK Cathedrals and concert halls, and is currently Organist and Director of the Girls' Choir at York Minster. - William Elphinstone
William Elphinstone (1431 - October 25, 1514), Scottish statesman, Bishop of Aberdeen and founder of the University of Aberdeen. He was born in Glasgow, and educated at the University of Glasgow, taking the degree of M.A. in 1452. After practising for a short time as a lawyer in the church courts, he was ordained a priest, becoming rector of St. Michael's Church, Trongate, Glasgow, in 1465. Four years later he went to continue his studies at the University of Paris, … - Adam Lehan
Adam Lehan is known for being the guitarist of the doom metal/stoner metal band Cathedral. He played guitar, acoustic guitar and 12 string acoustic guitar in the albums Forest of Equilibrium and The Ethereal Mirror. - John Loughborough Pearson
John Loughborough Pearson (Brussels, 5 July 1817-11 December 1897) was a 19th-century architect renowned for his work on churches and cathedrals. Pearson revived and practised largely the art of vaulting, and acquired in it a proficiency unrivalled in his generation. - Charles Lucas
Charles Lucas (1808-March 23, 1869) was an English cellist and Principal of the Royal Academy of Music. He was born in Salisbury where he received his first musical education as a chorister at the Cathedral. He then attended the newly formed Royal Academy of Music in London where he studied under the celebrated cellist Robert Lindley. In 1830 he was appointed Composer and Violoncellist to Queen Adelaide, and became the Organist of St. George's Chapel. - Stanley Vann
Dr William Stanley Vann DMus(Cantuar), BMus(Lond), Hon. FTCL, FRCO, ARCM. (born February 15, 1910) is an English composer, organist, choral conductor, and choir trainer, primarily in the Anglican cathedral tradition. - Kyrill
His Grace, Archbishop Kyrill of San Francisco and Western America, is the ruling bishop of the Western American Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia. Abp. Kyrill was born Boris Mikhailovich Dmitriev on November 24, 1954 in San Francisco, California. At the age of 18, he was tonsured reader by Archbishop Anthony (Medvedev). In 1976 he graduated from University with a degree in theology. - Howard Clark
The Most Reverend Howard Hewlett Clark, C.C., D.D. (1903-1983) was the former Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada. He was first appointed Curate of St. John the Baptist Norway in Toronto, Ontario in 1930. In 1932 he was made Curate of Christ Church Cathedral in Ottawa. He became Priest-in-Charge in 1938, Rector in 1939, and Dean and Rector from 1945 to 1953. He was Bishop of the Diocese of Edmonton when he was elected Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada in 1959. - Bernhard Lichtenberg
Bernhard Lichtenberg (December 3, 1875 - November 5, 1943) was a German Catholic priest and theologian. He was born on the 3rd of December, 1875, in Ohlau, Prussia (today Poland), near Breslau, and studied theology in Innsbruck, Austria. He was then ordained priest in 1899. He began his ministry in Berlin in 1900 as parson in Charlottenburg. For a time he also was a member of the local parliament for the Centre Party. - Tino di Camaino
Tino di Camaino was an Italian sculptor. Born in Siena, the son of the architect Camaino di Crescentino, he was a pupil of Giovanni Pisano, whom he hepkled in the works at the façade of the Cathedral of Siena. Later Tino followed his master at Pisa, where in 1311 he became responsible of the works of the Cathedral. Four years later he executed the funerary monument of Emperor Henry VII; subsequently he executed similar works in Siena and Florence, … - Francis Petre
Francis (Frank) William Petre (27 August 1847-10 December 1918) was a prominent New Zealand-born architect based in Dunedin. Before his time, 19th-century New Zealand architecture was dominated by an almost institutionalized Gothic revival style, used by the British Empire for its far-flung colonies. Petre, one of the first of New Zealand's native-born architects, played an important part in guiding it towards the Palladian and Renaissance styles of southern Europe, … - Henry Wace
The Very Reverend Henry Wace (December 10, 1836 - January 9, 1924) was Principal of King's College London and Dean of Canterbury. Wace was educated at Marlborough College, Rugby School, King's College London, and Brasenose College, Oxford (BA Literae Humaniores and Mathematics, Honorary Fellow 1911). He took Holy Orders and served curacies at St Luke's, Berwick Street (1861-63), St James's, Piccadilly (1863-69), and Grosvenor Chapel (1870-72). - James Biery
James Biery (b.1956) is an American organist and current Director of Music at the Cathedral of St. Paul in St. Paul, Minnesota. He has been holding this position since 1996. Biery is featured regularly as a performer on the Cathedral’s monthly concerts. He and his wife, Marilyn, share the organ and conducting duties at the Cathedral. Before moving to Minnesota, James Biery was Director of Music at the Cathedral of St. Joseph in Hartford, Connecticut, … - Elizabeth MacDonald
Elizabeth MacDonald is a British soprano born 1966 in Worcestershire, England. Although a lyric soprano, she has a range that allows her to include works typically sung by mezzo-sopranos in her repertoire. - Vasily Stasov
Vasily Petrovich Stasov (1769-1848), Russian architect, extensively travelled in France and Italy, where he became professor of St Luke Academy in Rome. On his return home, he was elected to the Imperial Academy of Arts (1811). Among his earlier works, we should mention the Gruzino estate near Novgorod: it was built for Count Alexey Arakcheyev in the 1810s and completely destroyed during the World War II fighting. - Saint Mel
Saint Mel died in 488. He is said to have been a Briton who came to Ireland with Saint Patrick, with whom he worked until he was ordained in Ardagh. He is one of the earliest Irish saints and gave the religious veil to Saint Brigid. He is the patron saint of the Roman Catholic diocese of Ardagh and Clonmacnois, and is commemorated in the name of the cathedral church of the diocese in Longford and in the name of the main diocesan school for boys, St. - Stefan Soroka
Stephen Soroka is a Canadian prelate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, currently serving as Archbishop of Philadelphia in the United States. He was born to Ivan (1920-1993) and Anna (née Galek, 1920-1973) Soroka in Winnipeg, where his family had immigrated that same year. After studying at the Catholic University of America, the University of Manitoba, and St. Josaphat Seminary, Soroka was ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Maxim Hermaniuk, CSSR, on June 13, … - Digby Pearson
Digby Pearson, also known as "Dig," was a British musician who founded Earache Records, which signed some of the most infamous heavy metal acts worldwide in the 1980s and early 1990s. He was raised in Nottingham, UK where he began playing music focusing on heavy metal. His band "Scum Dribblers" failed to achieve success and he began releasing 7" albums of local bands. As his business success grew he signed unknown acts like Napalm Death, Bolt Thrower, Carcass, Cathedral, … - Henry Wardlaw
Henry Wardlaw (d. April 6, 1440) was a Scottish church leader, Bishop of St Andrews and founder of the University of St Andrews. He was a son of Sir Andrew Wardlaw and a nephew of Walter Wardlaw (d. 1390), Bishop of Glasgow, who is said to have been made a cardinal by the antipope Clement VII in 1381. Educated at the universities of Oxford and of Paris, Henry Wardlaw returned to Scotland in about 1385, and his influential connections obtained him several church benefices. - T. Tertius Noble
Thomas Tertius Noble (May 5 1867 - May 4 1953) was an English-born organist and composer, resident in the United States for the latter part of his career. After studying at the Royal College of Music he served as Organist and Choirmaster at Ely Cathedral from 1892 to 1898, then at York Minster from 1898 to 1913. His last appointment was at St Thomas Episcopal Church in New York City from 1913 to 1943, …
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