Education
He subsequently graduated from University College, Durham and from the University of Cambridge.
He subsequently graduated from University College, Durham and from the University of Cambridge.
Lunt initially trained for ministry at London College of Divinity being ordained deacon in 1925 and priest in 1927, beginning his ordained ministry as a curate at Maidenhead. becoming in turn Chaplain of Downing College, Cambridge, and Vicar of Street Aldate"s, Oxford. He became Dean of Bristol in 1951, and served there until his consecration to the episcopate in 1957. He was elected a Fellow of Downing College Cambridge in 1966.
An Evangelical in churchmanship, as his appointments show, much of his career saw him involved with providing spiritual care to students through the Cambridge and Oxford Pastorates.
He nonetheless maintained friendships with clergy of other ecclesiastical leanings, most notably with John AT Robinson the author of Honest to God, whose views caused controversy among more traditional believers. One of his contributions to Church life was an interest in ministry to the deaf, and in 1963 he presided over one of the first televised services which was also translated into sign language.
He also supported Cicely Saunders in persuading various London authorities of a need for support of the terminally ill through the hospice movement., and was instrumental in the setting up of Street Christopher"s Hospice in South London, as the following excerpt from its history shows:
lieutenant was then joined by Evered Lunt (Anglican Bishop of Stepney). Sir Kenneth Grubb (of the Church Missionary Society).
And, very significantly, Dame Albertine Winner (Deputy Chief Medical Officer).
Led by their enthusiasms and the inspiration and energy of Cicely Saunders herself, they set about raising funds to bring the enterprise to realisation..".
Bishop F. Evered Lunt retired from active ministry in 1968, and lived near Bognor Regis until his death in 1982.