Pauline Webb obituary

Methodist and ecumenical leader, she was an inspired choice as BBC World Service organiser of religious broadcasting‘Let’s get the Orthodox!” cried Pauline Webb, who has died aged 89, as she began to splash a group of bearded, swimsuited priests who had entered the sea during a break in a World Council of Churches meeting in Jamaica. Probably only this woman, who was one of the 20th-century’s ecumenical leaders and among Britain’s best-known Methodists, could have g