It also ended Parliament's nominal control over changes in doctrine and ritual. When put into effect, the recommendations of the Chadwick Report, retained the ties between the Church of England and the state but gave the church greater control over the appointment of bishops. In 1966, he was put at the head of a commission to redefine Parliament's role in church affairs. He was chancellor of the University of East Anglia from 1985 to 1994. He was master of Selwyn College, Cambridge University, for almost 30 years, beginning in the mid-1950s and retiring in 1983. The Church of England ordained him a deacon in 1940 and a priest in 1941. He attended Cuddeson, a theological college, to study for holy orders. He received a degree in history in 1938 and a degree in theology in 1939 from St. William Owen Chadwick was born in London, England on May 20, 1916.
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