Henry Joy Fynes-Clinton

Henry Joy Fynes-Clinton was an Anglican priest and a leading Anglican Papalist.

Fynes Clinton was born on 6 May 1875 and baptised by his father on 11 June 1875. He was educated at The King's School, Canterbury, winning a Ford Studentship in 1894 to Trinity College, Oxford, where he read Literae Humaniores (B.A. 1898, M.A. 1901). In 1899 he was a tutor to the Morozov family in Smolensky Boulevard, Moscow. After training at Ely Theological College he was ordained deacon in 1901 and priest in 1902, serving as a curate at St John the Evangelist, Upper Norwood (1901–04), St Martin's Brighton (1904-06), St Stephen's Lewisham (1906–14) and St Michael's Shoreditch (1914–21) before becoming Rector of St Magnus the Martyr in the City of London on 31 May 1921. He substantially beautified the interior of St Magnus the Martyr and remained rector of that parish until his death on 4 December 1959.

Fynes-Clinton was General Secretary of the Anglican and Eastern Orthodox Churches Union from its foundation in July 1906 until 1914 and thereafter of its successor, the Anglican and Eastern Churches Association. From 1920 to 1924 he served as Secretary to the Archbishop of Canterbury's Eastern Churches Committee. In the preface to his book The Relations of the Anglican Churches with the Eastern-Orthodox, Canon John Douglas commented that he had "had the great advantage of the help of my friend the Rev. H. J. Fynes-Clinton, to whom the development of the rapprochement between the Anglican and Eastern-Orthodox Churches is due more than to any living man". Fynes-Clinton was joint secretary, with R.W. Seton-Watson, of the committee established in 1916 to disseminate knowledge of Serbia throughout Great Britain and draw a tighter bond between the two countries. This organized a service at St Paul's Cathedral on 7 July 1916 to commemorate the British and Serbian soldiers, doctors and nurses who had died in the defence of Serbia. Fynes-Clinton supported the Serbian Orthodox Church, for example by raising funds for the education of theological students at Oxford, and was awarded the Serbian Order of St Sava (2nd class 1918, 1st class 1921). He was also one of the Secretaries of the , founded in 1918, which promoted the restoration of the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople to Christian worship.

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