The Very Rev Charles MacAlester Copland was an eminent Anglican Priest

Priest

A priest is a person authorized to perform the sacred rites of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and deities. They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in particular, rites of sacrifice to, and propitiation of, a deity or deities...

 in the second half of the 20th century.
Born into an ecclesiastical family on 5 April 1910 and educated at Denstone College

Denstone College

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, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

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 and Ripon College Cuddesdon

Ripon College Cuddesdon

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, he was ordained in 1934 and began his career with a curacy

Curate

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 at Peterborough

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 Parish Church, after which he was a Mission Priest

Missionary

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 in Chanda District

Chandrapur District

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, Maharashtra, until 1953. He was then Rector

Rector

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 of St Mary’s, Arbroath

Arbroath

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 until 1959 when he became Provost

Provost (religion)

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 of St John's Cathedral, Oban

St John's Cathedral, Oban

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 -a post he held for twenty years. Between 1977 and 1979 he was also Dean of Argyll and The Isles.
He died four months short of his hundredth year on 12 December 2009.