{{Short description|Irish Anglican missionary}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
'''Max Warren''' (1904–1977) was General secretary of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) and canon of Westminster Abbey.
==Biography== Warren was born in Dún Laoghaire in Ireland on 13 August 1904. He was the youngest of three sons and four children. His father was Reverend John Alexander Faris Warren of the Church of Ireland.<ref>{{Cite ODNB |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-31805 |title=Warren, Max Alexander Cunningham |year=2004 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/31805 |isbn=978-0-19-861412-8 |access-date=2018-01-10}}</ref> He spent much of his early life in India with his missionary parents. He travelled to Nigeria as a missionary to the Hausa in 1928, but Ill-health soon forced him to return to the UK. He studied for ordination at Ridley Hall in Cambridge, and then worked as vicar of Holy Trinity, Cambridge from 1936 to 1942.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bu.edu/missiology/missionary-biography/w-x-y-z/warren-max-alexander-cunningham-1904%E2%80%931977/|title=Warren, Max Alexander Cunningham (1904–1977)|website=Boston University, History of Missiology|accessdate=10 January 2018}}</ref> thumb|Memorial in floor of cloister in Westminster Abbey Warren served as general secretary of the CMS for over 20 years, from 1942 to 1963, when he was appointed as canon and subdean of Westminster Abbey, London.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions|last=Anderson|first=Gerald H|publisher=Eerdmans|year=1999|isbn=978-0802846808|location=Grand Rapids, Michigan|pages=114–117}}</ref>
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