Massey Shepherd Vatican Observer
Diocesan Press Service. September 11, 1964 [XXIV-12]
LONDON - The Rev. Dr. Massey H. Shepherd, Jr., professor of liturgics at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, Berkeley, Calif., has been named one of the five delegate-observers from the Anglican Communion to the third session of the Second Vatican Council, which convened Sept. 14 in Rome.
The Archbishop of Canterbury appointed Dr. Shepherd in consultation with Pre- siding Bishop Lichtenberger. He goes in mid-October.
The other observers are the Rt. Rev. John Moorman, Bishop of Ripon; the Rev. Howard Root of Emanuel College, Cambridge University; the Rev. Eugene Fairweather of Trinity College, University of Toronto, Canada; and the Rev. Ernest John of the Brotherhood of the Ascension, New Delhi, India. All are recognized liturgical scholars.