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Junior House, with DD Kittermaster,
shortly before the move to Brandeston
Hall.
Framlingham College and National
Service in the army, Pytches trained at
Tyndale Hall, Bristol, and was ordained
deacon in 1955 to a curacy at St Ebbe’s,
Oxford, a conservative evangelical
parish.
The Rt Revd GEORGE EDWARD DAVID
PYTCHES (K44-48) died on 21 November,
aged 92.
In 1959, Pytches and his wife, Mary,
The Revd Dr Andrew Atherstone wrote (in
Missionary Society (SAMS) to pioneer
sailed for Chile with the South American
The Church Times - edited):
Anglican church-planting in Valparaíso.
David Pytches, founder of the New
profoundly shaped his future ministry.
There, he made two discoveries that
Wine network, was one of the Church of
First, he embraced missional 昀氀exibility,
England’s leading pioneers of charismatic
even when it disrupted traditional
renewal and church-planting.
Anglican ecclesiology. Secondly, he
Born in Su昀昀olk in 1931, the ninth of ten
as miraculous healings, which Pytches
embraced the gifts of the Holy Spirit, such
previously believed to have died out with
children, Pytches was part of a clerical
the apostles, but which were common
dynasty. His father was an evangelical
among South American Pentecostals in
clergyman, his mother was the daughter
the 1960s. Mary began to pray in tongues,
of a clergyman, and two of his brothers
after seeking to be 昀椀lled with the Holy
were later ordained. His great-uncle
Spirit. Her husband was initially alarmed,
was the former Bishop of Calcutta and
but was soon persuaded to follow suit.
Dean of Durham, James Welldon. After
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