Snow covered plain
Majestic bird perched on a single branch
Deer in a winter landscape
A fox seeking prey on an open white field
You give each to eat in due season
Now is winter
And yet there is life and food
Enough to sustain us
If we will but
With enduring patience
Watch, seek and persevere.
11 January 2009
written on the train from Zagreb to Vienna
Easterncurrents provides ongoing information about the Eastern Archdeaconry and the Anglican Church of Christ Church, Vienna in the Diocese in Europe as well as other matters relating to Central and Eastern Europe together with Turkey. It will also contain personal reflections and observations.
Archdeacon Patrick Curran
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- My parents (father English, mother German) met after the Second Wold War in Hamburg, Germany. They moved to Canada in 1954 where we lived until returning to Hamburg in 1969 where I attended school in Timmendorfer Strand on the Baltic Coast. After finishing school I went to study in Canada at the University King's College, Halifax, Nova Scotia. My first degree was in Classics/German. In 1980 I went to Chichester Theological College to train for the ordained ministry of the Church of England and to study theology at the University of Southampton. In 1984 I was ordained deacon and priested in 1985 while serving my title post in the parish of Heavitree, Exeter: the birthplace of Richard Hooker. In 1987 I was appointed Bishop's Chaplain to Students in the Diocese of Bradford. In 1993 I was appointed chaplain of St Boniface, Bonn with All Saints, Cologne. In 2000 I was appointed chaplain of Christ Church, Vienna. In 2002 I was appointed archdeacon of the Eastern Archdeaconry in the Diocese in Europe stepping down in 2015. I am married with two daughters.