(Telegraph) New Archbp of C.: Justin Welby, the meteoric rise of an ‘astonished’ former oil trader
A former oil executive he gave up a highly paid career after feeling a “call” to the priesthood in the late 1980s.
“Something in me just said ‘this is what you should be doing’,” he recently explained.
He was later able to draw on years of experience in oil exploration in troubled areas of west Africa, when his ministry led him to work in conflict resolution in the violent Niger Delta, where he narrowly avoided being shot dead.
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Posted November 8, 2012 at 5:50 am
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