Anglicans Elected to W.C.C. Faith and Order Commission
Diocesan Press Service. September 1, 1968 [68-1]
NEW YORK, N.Y. -- Sixteen Anglicans were elected to the 135-member Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches. during the Council's recent General Assembly in Uppsala, Sweden.
The Rt. Rev. C.H.W. de Soysa, Anglican Bishop of Colombo, a diocese located in Ceylon, will serve the Commission as one of its vice-chairmen.
Three Episcopalians and one member of the Anglican Church of Canada will serve as members of the Committee. The Episcopalians are Dr. Peter Day, of the Executive Council staff; the Rev. Edward R. Hardy, professor of Church History at Berkeley Divinity School, New Haven, Conn.; and the Rev. John Macquarrie, professor of systematic theology at Union Theological Seminary, New York City. The Rev. E.R. Fairweather, professor at Trinity College, Toronto, is the Canadian Anglican.
For the first time, the Faith and Order Commission will have Roman Catholics among its membership as nine representatives of that Church were elected to the Commission.