John Stott

===Ministry===
Stott was ordained as a deacon in 1945{{sfn|Livingstone|2013}} and became a [[curate]] at [[All Souls Church, Langham Place]] (1945–1950), then [[Rector (ecclesiastical)|rector]] (1950–1975).<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=38952|page=3256|date=23 June 1950}}</ref> This was the church in which he had grown up and where he spent almost his whole life apart from a few years spent in Cambridge. While in this position he became increasingly influential on a national and international basis, most notably being a key player in the 1966–1967 dispute about the appropriateness of [[evangelicalism|evangelicals]] remaining in the Church of England. He had founded the [[Church of England Evangelical Council]] (CEEC) in 1960 to bring together the different strands of evangelicals.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Baker |first1=David |title=Where is the Church of England Evangelical Council when we need it? |url=https://www.christiantoday.com/article/where.is.the.church.of.england.evangelical.council.when.we.need.it/111306.htm |website=Christian Today |access-date=26 April 2021 |language=en |date=31 July 2017 |quote=What would happen, he mused, if different evangelicals within the CofE could be brought together to talk, pray, plan and resolve any differences? Thus was born the Church of England Evangelical Council (CEEC) in 1960.}}</ref> In 1970, in response to increasing demands on his time from outside the All Souls congregation, he appointed a vicar of All Souls, to enable him to work on other projects.{{citation needed|date=January 2018}} In 1975 Stott resigned as rector and [[Michael Baughen]], {{citation needed span |date=January 2018 |text=the then vicar,}} was appointed in his place; Stott remained at the church and was appointed rector emeritus.{{sfn|Steer|2009|p=169}}

In 1974 he founded [[Langham Partnership International]] (known as John Stott Ministries in the US until 2012),{{citation needed|date=January 2018}} and in 1982 the [[London Institute for Contemporary Christianity]],{{sfn|Steer|2009|p=209}} of which he remained honorary president until his death.{{citation needed|date=January 2018}} During his presidency he gathered together leading evangelical intellectuals to shape courses and programmes communicating the Christian faith into a secular context. He was regularly accompanied by a leading paediatrician, [[John Wyatt (physician)|John Wyatt]], and the institute director, the broadcaster [[Elaine Storkey]], when they spoke across the country to large audiences on "Matters of Life and Death".{{citation needed|date=January 2018}} Following his chairmanship of the second [[National Evangelical Anglican Congress]] in April 1977, the Nottingham statement was published which said, "Seeing ourselves and Roman Catholics as fellow-Christians, we repent of attitudes that have seemed to deny it."<ref name=nott>{{cite web |year=1977 |title=The Nottingham Statement |url=http://www.spurgeon.org/~phil/creeds/nott.htm |publisher=National Evangelical Anglican Congress |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120627041149/http://www.spurgeon.org/~phil/creeds/nott.htm |at=sec.&nbsp;M |url-status=dead |archive-date=27 June 2012}}</ref> This aroused controversy amongst some evangelicals at the time.{{sfn|Murray|2000}}