Appointments Made to Ecumenical Organization
Diocesan Press Service. January 27, 1969 [73-9]
NEW YORK, N.Y. -- Two Bishops and two priests of the American Episcopal Church have been appointed members of the Anglican delegation for the proposed Joint Doctrinal Discussions with the Holy Orthodox Churches, according to an announcement by the Archbishop of Canterbury. An American layman, Dr. Paul B. Anderson, of White Plains, N.Y., also was named one of the two secretaries to the group.
The Rt. Rev. Lauriston L. Scaife of Buffalo, N.Y., Bishop of Western New York and chairman of the Council on Relations with Eastern Churches of the Joint Commission on Ecumenical Relations, and the Rt. Rev. J. G. Sherman of Garden City, N.Y., Bishop of Long Island, are the Bishops. The priests, both seminary professors, are the Rev. Dr. Edward R. Hardy of Berkeley Divinity School, New Haven, Conn., and the Rev. Dr. William J. Wolf of the Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge, Mass.
The Archbishop of Canterbury's office also announced that the Rt. Rev. A. W. Brown of Albany, N. Y., Bishop of Albany, and the Rt. Rev. F. W. Lickfield of Peoria, Ill., Bishop of Quincy, had been named alternates to the Bishops of Western New York and Long Island.
The Anglican delegation consists of 24 persons, representing all geographical areas of the world-wide Anglican Communion. The Anglican members will meet first in conference next Fall. The Anglican Communion is composed of seventeen national and provincial churches related to the Church of England.
Dr. Anderson serves as treasurer of the Episcopal Joint Commission on Ecumenical Relations as well as treasurer of its Council on Relations with Eastern Churches.