Chris Lee (priest)
Chris Lee | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | priest |
| Known for | online sermons |
| Ecclesiastical career | |
| Religion | Christianity |
| Church | Church of England |
| Website | https://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
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ Williams, Hattie (21 September 2018). "Three 'Young Franciscans' enter community in west London". Church Times. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
- ^ "Midday Mindfulness With Reverend Chris Lee". YouTube. ITV's This Morning. 1 April 2020. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
- ^ a b c d "Instagram vicar influencer earns comparisons with Fleabag's 'hot priest'". The Irish News. 1 November 2019. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Reverend Chris Lee: One real hot priest". You (South African magazine). 22 November 2020. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
- ^ Jolly (14 February 2020). "DUMBEST Valentines Day Arguments!?!๐ฌ(Rev. Chris and Jenny)". YouTube. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ ํ๊ตญ์ ๊ต์ก ํ์ค์ ๊น์ง ๋๋ ์ผ์๋ธ๋ฆฌ์ง ์กธ์ ์, retrieved 28 June 2022
- ^ ์ต๊ณ ์ "์คํ๋ฏธ๋ ์๋ฆฌ" ์๋ ์ฅ์ด๊ตฌ์ด๋ฅผ ์ฒ์ ๋จน์ด๋ณธ ์๊ตญ ๋ถ๋ถ์ ๋ฐ์ (ํจ๊ณผ์ต๊ณ ?!ใ ใ ), retrieved 28 June 2022
- ^ ๋์คํฐ, ๋์ง, ์ ๋ณต ๋ค ๊ฝ์ฐฌ ํ์์ค๋ฌ์ด ํด๋ฌผ๋ผ๋ฉด ์คํ!? ์ธ์ ํด๋ฌผ ๋จน๋ฐฉ!!, retrieved 28 June 2022
- ^ ์๋ด์๊ฒ ํ๊ตญ ๋ฐฐ๋ฌ๋ฌธํ ์๊ฐํ๋ค๊ฐ ๋ก๋งจํฑํด์ง ์๊ตญ ์ ๋ถ๋!?, retrieved 28 June 2022
- ^ ํํ ํ๊ตญ ์ํผ์์ ์ฅ๋ณด๋ค๊ฐ ๊น์ง ๋๋ ์๊ตญ๋ถ๋ถ!?, retrieved 28 June 2022
- ^ ์๊ตญ๋ถ๋ถ๊ฐ ๋กฏ๋ฐ์๋ํ์ 81์ธต์์ ๋จน๋ ๋ฏธ์๋ญ ์คํโ ํ์ (์์ธ ์ดํธํ ๋ฐ์ดํธ ๋ํ์!), retrieved 28 June 2022
- ^ British Twins React to Movie Twin Stereotypes!!?, retrieved 28 June 2022
- ^ British Twins take Twin Telepathy Test!!!, retrieved 28 June 2022
- ^ "The 'Hot Priest' doing 60 second sermons". YouTube. BBC London. 2 December 2019. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
- ^ Sherwin, Adam (3 April 2020). "Authors battle to publish first coronavirus bestseller". inews.co.uk. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
- ^ 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.