Executive Officer of the Anglican Communion Appointed
Diocesan Press Service. December 9, 1968 [72-1]
NEW YORK, N.Y. -- A Bishop of the Episcopal Church in Scotland will be the new Executive Officer of the Anglican Communion beginning in May, 1969.
He is the Bishop of St. Andrews, Dunkeld and Dumblane, the Rt. Rev. John Howe, who is 48 and a bachelor. He will be the third Executive Officer of the Anglican Communion, an appointment first proposed by the Lambeth Conference in 1958.
The Lambeth Conference is made up of Bishops of the world-wide Anglican Communion of which the Church of England, the Episcopal Church in the United States, the Church of Canada and 17 other national and provincial Churches throughout the world are members.
Bishop Howe will succeed the Bishop of Cariboo, the Rt. Rev. Ralph Dean, who has held the post since 1964. He will resign his see and make his headquarters in London. The first Executive Officer of the Anglican Communion was an American, the Rt. Rev. Stephen Bayne, who now serves as Deputy for Program in the national Episcopal Church organization in New York City.
As Executive Officer of the Anglican Communion, Bishop Howe will be responsible to the Lambeth Consultative Body, of which the Archbishop of Canterbury is the president. Much of his work will be involved with the implementation of resolutions passed at the Lambeth Conference held last summer in London. He will travel extensively throughout the Anglican Communion.
Bishop Howe has had a prominent role in conversations between the Anglican and Presbyterian Churches in Scotland and has participated in unity conversations with the Roman Catholics in the United Kingdom.
He was consecrated in 1955.