Peter Toon
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| Born | 1939 Yorkshire, England |
| Died | April 25, 2009 (aged 69–70) San Diego, California, United States |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Anglican priest, theologian and professor |
| Known for | Books and teachings on theology |
Peter Toon was a priest and theologian and an international advocate of traditional Anglicanism.
Toon was born to Thomas Arthur and Hilda Toon in Yorkshire, England in 1939. His younger siblings were Paul, David and Christine.
He attended and graduated from the following schools and colleges:
After an earlier career as a college lecturer in religious studies, Toon was ordained deacon in 1973 and priest in 1974 in the Diocese of Liverpool, Church of England. He served a short title curacy in Skelmersdale (just over a year, compared with the usual requirement of three years), before taking a post in Oxford as Librarian of Latimer House, the headquarters and library of a conservative evangelical pressure group (subsequently the Latimer Trust, without property, but maintaining its library at Oak Hill Theological College, London) during which time he also served as curate of St Ebbe's, a central Oxford evangelical parish church. In 1976 he became a tutor at Oak Hill Theological College in London, training ordinands, and then from 1982 Director of Post-Ordination Training in the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich in East Anglia. He returned briefly to parish ministry (Staindrop, County Durham) before moving to the United States of America in 1991. In the last decade of his working life, he served as President and CEO of the Prayer Book Society of the USA, and his life and work were centred in America, although he did return briefly to England, and was for four years the priest-in-charge of the villages of Biddulph Moor and Brown Edge in Staffordshire.
Toon wrote over 25 books, together with numerous booklets, essays and articles. He also engaged in internet authorship and discussion. He was contributing to these topical online discussions up until his death.
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