David B. Barrett
David B. Barrett (August 30, 1927 – August 4, 2011) was a visiting professor at Columbia University and research secretary for the Anglican Consultative Council. Barrett was a trained aeronautical engineer who became a missionary with the Church Missionary Society (Anglican). He arrived in Nyanza Province in Western Kenya in 1957. Over the course of 14 years he traveled to 212 of 223 countries and corresponded with Christians all over the world in search of the most up-to-date statistics on Christianity and world religions. His research resulted in the first edition of the World Christian Encyclopedia in 1982.
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Anglican Consultative Council
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