With an expansive, ebullient personality, Warren filled the nave with his resonant voice and passionate delivery; most of his speech seemed to be in either italics or boldface type. Parishioners remember his prompting them to repeat the Easter proclamation response “The Lord is risen indeed! Alleluia!” until it was loud enough “to be heard in Heaven.” His deep devotion to the Episcopal/Anglican tradition was unmarred by pretentiousness or preciousness, and upheld by his delight and dignity in serving God and his people.

He approached the celebration of the Eucharist and other sacraments with reverence, love, and joy. At the same time, he understood that many of the rites of the church comfortably occupy the territory where sacred and silly overlap. He loved to solemnly proclaim the dates of the moveable feasts every year, and to lead noisy processions of church-school “mourners” when they buried the alleluias before Lent. He startled the congregation at Tenebrae services by making a sudden loud sound representing the veil of the temple being torn in two, using a large spoon to strike a metal garbage can lid.

During his tenure, the Advent’s reputation as an exemplar of Anglo-Catholic worship and music grew. His sermons might include inspiring stories about tulips or ashes, or amusing asides about pink plaster feet and accordion music. He loved hymns, which he sang with enthusiasm; he would often sing along with the organ play-through of his favorites, unable to wait for the first verse to begin.

He and a multi-generational group of parishioners traveled to Gulfport, Mississippi, to rebuild homes devastated by a hurricane in 2008, and he later led groups on pilgrimages to Israel, Turkey, and Greece. Closer to home, parishioners engaged in service to their neighbors by preparing meals for Common Cathedral, Epiphany School and its summer program, and a weekly community dinner. For several years, he offered weekly Mass in the chapel at Massachusetts General Hospital.

A critical part of Warren’s work was overseeing comprehensive exterior restoration of the church building on Brimmer Street. By 2000 it was in desperate need of structural repair, with chunks of stone falling into the chancel. He led a capital campaign to “clean up the Advent.”

He married Mary (Polly) Wilder Brodie in 1981. In the summers, they retreated to Maine. After her death in 2007, he welcomed guests to the old farmhouse in Southwest Harbor. He looked after array of cats, many of them rescues or strays, who found a home with him — either in the rectory or in the church building.

Warren spurned cell phones and social media, saying, “I like to read things on paper.” Yet less than 24 hours after his death, the internet was abuzz with reminiscences, anecdotes, and gratitude for his ministry and friendship. A colleague recalled that in one sermon Fr. Warren “remembered being bored in church as a child and looking up at a butterfly in a stained-glass window, thinking of how, unlike him, it could fly away and get out, which was exactly what he so wanted to do. Only later, he said, did he learn that the butterfly he’d been watching so assiduously stood for the Resurrection of Christ on Easter — which was precisely the glorious promise of God that we would indeed one day get out into God’s nearer presence forever. This Easter he has gotten out, by the grace of God. May he rest in peace and rise in glory.”

Allan Bevier Warren III was born in Charlottesville, Virginia, to Allan B. Warren Jr., a physician, and Claudia (Wyclif) Warren. After graduating from Princeton University and the General Theological Seminary in New York, he was ordained deacon in 1972 and priest in 1973. He served first in South Carolina at All Saints, Clinton, and Epiphany, Laurens (1972-74). From there he was appointed curate of the Church of the Transfiguration, New York (1974-81).

Subsequently he served as canon pastor of the Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity in Paris (1981-84), then returned to the United States after being called as rector of Parish of the Good Shepherd, in Waban, Massachusetts (1984-90). He became a curate at the Church of the Advent (1990-93) and then rector of the Church of the Resurrection, New York (1993-99).

Over the years, he was a mentor to many young priests, as well as an inspiration to his numerous friends and parishioners, who will long remember his irrepressible personality, resonant voice, and faithful witness.

A Solemn Requiem Mass will be held at the Church of the Advent, 30 Brimmer Street, Boston, at 11 a.m. April 6.