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Chris Lee (priest)

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Chris Lee
Occupationpriest
Known foronline sermons
Ecclesiastical career
ReligionChristianity
ChurchChurch of England
Websitehttps://saintsaviours.net/rev-chris-lee

Chris Lee is an Anglican priest-in-charge at St. Saviour's Church in Wendell Park, West London.[1]

Personal life

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Lee described himself as being lost on a "middle-class conveyor belt" on what to do with his life.[2] Lee later moved to Tanzania to teach English at a mission using the Bible as his main teaching tool, where he states he found his calling to become a priest.[3] He then completed a distance-learning degree to become a Church of England priest and was ordained a deacon in the diocese of Mount Kilimanjaro at the age of 24.[4][3] Holly Willoughby on This Morning described Chris as "the nation's favourite vicar".[5]

He moved to St Saviour's in 2015.[4][3] He is married.[6]

Online fame

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Lee first appeared on the YouTube channel Korean Englishman, where he ate fire noodles and chimaek (Korean fried chicken and beer).[7]

His response to the College Scholastic Ability Test, where he prayed for the students, made him famous online; he was seen as an open-minded and non-judgemental Christian voice on the channel. This led to the "British Priest Reacts" series on Korean Englishman's second channel, Jolly, on which he regularly featured.[7][8] In 2018, he visited South Korea with his wife, Jenny,[9][10][11][12][13][14][excessive citations] on a series hosted by Korean Englishman. In 2019, he and his twin brother Charles,[15][16] a commando in the British Army, went to South Korea in the "Twins" series on Korean Englishman.[7]

Following his online popularity, he decided to start posting images of his home life, as well as 60-second sermons and theological commentary on his Instagram.[3][17] In 2020, he compiled some of these sermons into a book, The OMG Effect: 60-Second Sermons to Live a Fuller Life.[18]

He has called for the church to do more to reach younger people through social media.[19]

References

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  1. ^ Williams, Hattie (21 September 2018). "Three 'Young Franciscans' enter community in west London". Church Times. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
  2. ^ "Midday Mindfulness With Reverend Chris Lee". YouTube. ITV's This Morning. 1 April 2020. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
  3. ^ a b c d "Instagram vicar influencer earns comparisons with Fleabag's 'hot priest'". The Irish News. 1 November 2019. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
  4. ^ a b Clinton, Jane (1 November 2019). "Meet Rev Chris Lee, leading an ecclesiastical mission on YouTube and Instagram". inews.co.uk. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
  5. ^ "Reverend Chris Lee: One real hot priest". You (South African magazine). 22 November 2020. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
  6. ^ Jolly (14 February 2020). "DUMBEST Valentines Day Arguments!?!๐Ÿ˜ฌ(Rev. Chris and Jenny)". YouTube. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
  7. ^ a b c Pack, Natasha (17 January 2020). "Meet Chris Lee, the British priest who became a viral star South Korea". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
  8. ^ Petter, Olivia (4 November 2019). "Vicar with 100,000 Instagram followers says 'fans' keep sending him nude inspired by Fleabag's 'hot priest'". The Independent. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
  9. ^ ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ ๊ต์œก ํ˜„์‹ค์— ๊นœ์ง ๋†€๋ž€ ์ผ€์ž„๋ธŒ๋ฆฌ์ง€ ์กธ์—…์ƒ, retrieved 28 June 2022
  10. ^ ์ตœ๊ณ ์˜ "์Šคํƒœ๋ฏธ๋‚˜ ์š”๋ฆฌ" ์–‘๋… ์žฅ์–ด๊ตฌ์ด๋ฅผ ์ฒ˜์Œ ๋จน์–ด๋ณธ ์˜๊ตญ ๋ถ€๋ถ€์˜ ๋ฐ˜์‘ (ํšจ๊ณผ์ตœ๊ณ ?!ใ…‹ใ…‹), retrieved 28 June 2022
  11. ^ ๋ž์Šคํ„ฐ, ๋‚™์ง€, ์ „๋ณต ๋‹ค ๊ฝ‰์ฐฌ ํ˜œ์ž์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด ํ•ด๋ฌผ๋ผ๋ฉด ์‹คํ™”!? ์ธ์ƒ ํ•ด๋ฌผ ๋จน๋ฐฉ!!, retrieved 28 June 2022
  12. ^ ์•„๋‚ด์—๊ฒŒ ํ•œ๊ตญ ๋ฐฐ๋‹ฌ๋ฌธํ™” ์†Œ๊ฐœํ•˜๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ๋กœ๋งจํ‹ฑํ•ด์ง„ ์˜๊ตญ ์‹ ๋ถ€๋‹˜!?, retrieved 28 June 2022
  13. ^ ํ”ํ•œ ํ•œ๊ตญ ์Šˆํผ์—์„œ ์žฅ๋ณด๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ๊นœ์ง ๋†€๋ž€ ์˜๊ตญ๋ถ€๋ถ€!?, retrieved 28 June 2022
  14. ^ ์˜๊ตญ๋ถ€๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ๋กฏ๋ฐ์›”๋“œํƒ€์›Œ 81์ธต์—์„œ ๋จน๋Š” ๋ฏธ์Š๋žญ ์Šคํƒ€โ˜… ํ•œ์‹ (์„œ์šธ ์ดˆํ˜ธํ™” ๋ฐ์ดํŠธ ๋ํŒ์™•!), retrieved 28 June 2022
  15. ^ British Twins React to Movie Twin Stereotypes!!?, retrieved 28 June 2022
  16. ^ British Twins take Twin Telepathy Test!!!, retrieved 28 June 2022
  17. ^ "The 'Hot Priest' doing 60 second sermons". YouTube. BBC London. 2 December 2019. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
  18. ^ Sherwin, Adam (3 April 2020). "Authors battle to publish first coronavirus bestseller". inews.co.uk. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
  19. ^ Swerling, Gabriella (1 November 2019). "Vicar with more Instagram followers than Archbishop of Canterbury receives nude selfies inspired by fans of Fleabag's 'hot priest'". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 6 May 2021. Retrieved 25 May 2021.