The Very Rev John Salter, TD, SSC, AKC, SChOLJ(J)

The Very Rev John Salter, TD, SSC, AKC, SChOLJ(J)'s Biography

Forename(s)
(Arthur Thomas Alexis) John
Sex
Male
Decorations
TD (1988)
Date of Birth
22/11/1934
Foretitle(s)
Very Rev
Surname
SALTER
Style
The Very Rev John Salter, TD, SSC, AKC, SChOLJ(J)
Recreations
travelling in Eastern Europe, genealogy, reading

The Very Rev John Salter, TD, SSC, AKC, SChOLJ(J)'s Professional Career

Career
served Intelligence Corps 1954-55, RAMC 1955-56; ordained: deacon 1961, priest 1962; asst priest: St Peter's Mount Park Ealing 1961-65, St Stephen with St Thomas the Apostle Shepherd's Bush 1965-66, St Alban the Martyr Holborn with St Peter Saffron Hill 1966-70; priest-in-charge St Clement Barnsbury and St Michael the Archangel Islington 1970-79, vicar St Silas with All Saints Pentonville 1970-2000, guild vicar St Dunstan-in-the-West with St Thomas of Canterbury within the Liberty of the Rolls 1979-99; ordained Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarchal Priest 2002; cnsllr for Foreign Relations to his Sacred Beatitude the Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch Gregory III of Antioch and all the East, of Alexandria and of Jerusalem 2002-; chm Wynford Estate's Old People's Club 1971-90, chaplain Law Courts Branch Edward Bear Fndn for Muscular Dystrophy 1979-99, chm Ctee Anglican and Eastern Churches Assoc 1990-2001 (gen sec 1975-90); Royal Army Chaplains' Dept 1975-94, CF IV (Capt) 1975-81, CF III (Maj); chaplain: 36 Signal Regt 1975-80, 257 (S) Gen Hosp RAMC (V) Duke of York's HQ 1980-94, Reg Army Reserve of Offrs 1994-96; hon chaplain HMTS Lancastria Assoc 1996-2007; memb: Ctee Nikaean Club Lambeth Palace 1999-2001, Societas Sanctae Crucis (SSC), Soc of Friends of St George's Windsor and Descendants of the Knights of the Garter, Coptic Cultural Centre Venice, Friends of the Holy Father, Maj-Gen the Duke of Westminster's Ulysses Tst 2008; fell Sion Coll 1979; sr chaplain of military and hospitaller Order of St Lazarus of Jerusalem (chaplain of jurisdiction and justice Order of St Lazarus of Jerusalem 1974, memb Spiritual Advsy Cncl Ordr of St Lazarus 2010), chaplain to HBM Consulate-Gen Istanbul 1975, Locum Tenens Apocrisarios to HAH The Ecumenical Patriarch and to His Sacred Beatitude the Patriarch of Constantinople of the Armenians, hereditary Lord of Choulton and Eton 1982-; chm Pontifical Soc of St John Chrysostom 2002; Freeman City of London 1990; Hon Archimandrite's Cross of Byelo-Russian Autocephalic Orthodox Church-in-Exile 1979, Archpriest's Cross of Ethiopian Catholic Uniate Church (Eparchy of Asmara Eritrea) 1980, Archpriest's Cross Exarchate of Pope Shenouda III (Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria) 1981, Hon Knight Order of St Michael of the Wing (Royal House of Braganza Portugal) 1984, Companion of Honour Order of Orthodox Hospitallers (Ethnarchy of Cyprus and Greek Patriarchate of Antioch) 1985

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