Anointing the Sick: the significance of the dying

21/02/2016 13 min

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Episode Synopsis

Preacher: The Rev’d Mark Birch, Minor Canon and Chaplain, Westminster Abbey

Mark Birch is currently Minor Canon and Chaplain at Westminster Abbey.

After a brief career as a veterinary surgeon, he trained for ordination at Westcott House and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and served his title in Cirencester, in the diocese of Gloucester.

He was the first full-time Chaplain of Helen and Douglas House, Oxford, which offers hospice care for children and young adults.

Subsequently he worked as a parish priest in Winchester, and as Chaplain of Treloar's School and College in Alton, Hampshire, which offers education for young people with complex physical disabilities.