Day, Welsh to Vatican Council
Diocesan Press Service. August 9, 1965 [XXXIV-6]
Two American churchmen, Peter Day, Ecumenical Officer of the Executive Council of the Episcopal Church, and the Rev. Dr. Clement W. Welsh, canon of the Washington Cathedral, have been chosen official Anglican observers to the fourth session of the Second Vatican Council in Rome this September. Mr. Day is one of two laymen to officially represent the Anglican Church during this session.
The appointment was made by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. Arthur Michael Ramsey, in consultation with Presiding Bishop Hines.
As Ecumenical Officer to the Executive Council, Mr Day works closely with the Joint Commission on Ecumenical Relations. Before joining the Council in 1964, he was general manager and editor of "The Living Church", an Episcopal weekly published in Milwaukee. Mr Day will attend the first half of the session.
Dr. Welsh, a theologian and director of studies at the Washington Cathedral's College of Preachers, will attend the second half of the session. He has taught at Kenyon College and for six years was editor of Forward Movement Publications. Currently, he is a member of the editorial board of "The Christian Scholar."
Other official Anglican representatives to the Vatican Council will be the Rt. Rev. J.R. H. Moorman, Bishop of Ripon, England; the Rt. Rev. Najib A. Cuba'in, Bishop of Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria; John W. Lawrence O. B. E., editor of "Frontier," and Anglican Church publication; and the Rev. Eugene Fairweather, a professor at Trinity College in Toronto, Canada.