Jeremy Davies
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Father Jeremy Davies (born 1935) an English Roman Catholic Parish Priest of Old Hall Green, is a former doctor and is also a leading exorcist.
He studied English Literature at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford and studied Medicine at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London. Graduating with a doctor's degree in 1967. He worked in Mission Hospitals in Guyana, Nigeria and Ghana. He was ordained as a Catholic Priest in 1974.
Father Davies was appointed exorcist of the Westminster Diocese, in Great Britain in 1986. He spent four months in Rome in apprenticeship and has since been doing excorcisms ever since.
In 1993, he co-founded International Association of Exorcists which now has hundreds of members worldwide.
Quote
- On exorcisms. "There are people in need and the Church is dealing with the problem more effectively. "
Internet link
- Exorcism Enters a New Age (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/728180.stm)
- Spiritual and Medical Discernment: Should Possession be Treated by a Doctor or a Priest? (http://www.psychopathology.co.uk/2001/davies.php)