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Mr. Taylor to Be Nominated For President of Deputies

Episcopal News Service. August 25, 1976 [76283]

PITTSBURGH, Pa. -- A dozen deputies from dioceses across the United States have endorsed Walker Taylor of Wilmington, N. C., for President of the Episcopal Church's House of Deputies, one of the two bodies in the Church's General Convention (the other is the House of Bishops).

In a letter addressed to the 912 deputies -- four lay and four clergy representatives from each of the Church's 114 jurisdictions -- to the September 11-23 meeting of the General Convention, Mr. Dupuy Bateman Jr. of Pittsburgh and eleven other signers cite Mr. Taylor's "wide experience and natural talents" which qualify him for the national office.

The House of Deputies will elect a president during the 1976 meeting in Minneapolis/St. Paul for a three-year term, to begin at the adjournment of the Convention at noon on September 23.

Mr. Taylor's supporters point out that he has been elected a deputy to seven General Conventions from the Diocese of East Carolina. Committee assignments in the House of Deputies include agenda and arrangements, dispatch of business, Prayer Book, stewardship, and structure. He has also served on the advisory council of the President of the House.

Mr. Taylor has twice been elected to the Executive Council and in 1976 is completing a six-year term during which he has been chairman of the finance committee. He has been a member of General Convention's Joint Standing Committee on Program, Budget and Finance since 1970.

Mr. Taylor has twice served on the Executive Council's Episcopal Church Center staff. From 1965 to 1967 he took a leave of absence from his insurance agency to serve as executive officer of the Mutual Responsibility and Interdependence work under the Presiding Bishop John E. Hines. Again -- from 1968 to 1970 -- he joined the staff as director of Service to Dioceses where he was responsible for relations with the U. S. dioceses of the Church. Out of the planning process during those years grew Coalition 14. During his tenure, the National Committee on Indian Work was organized and he was heavily involved in fund raising efforts for the General Church Program.

Mr. Taylor's work has taken him to all nine provinces of the Episcopal Church and most of the provinces of the Anglican Communion. He has had a part in planning meetings of the Anglican Consultative Council, the Anglican Council of North America and the Caribbean, and the Anglican Council of South America. He has attended mission conferences in East Africa, Asia, Canada, South America, and the Caribbean.

Mr. Taylor is a graduate of Davidson College and was granted the degree of Doctor of Canon Law by Berkeley Divinity School at Yale in 1973. He is married and has four children.