Eugene Carson Blake

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Eugene Carson Blake (born: 7 November 1906, St. Louis, United States - died: 31 July 1985, Stamford) was an American Protestant Church leader in the 1950s and 60s. Blake's sermon is attributed to be the impetus for the 40-year Consultation on Church Union ecumenical effort to unite ten mainline denominations.

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He was educated at Princeton University and the University of Edinburgh. From 1928 to 1929, he taught at the Forman Christian College in Lahore; from 1935 to 1951, he was the minister of Presbyterian churches in America; and from 1951 to 1958, he was stated clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, and of the United Presbyterian Church until 1966.

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