Bernard Pawley
Anglican priest (1911 - 1981)
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Bernard Clinton Pawley (24 January 1911 – 15 November 1981) was an Anglican priest, author, and ecumenist.
He was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire,[1][2] educated at Portsmouth Grammar School and Wadham College, Oxford and ordained in 1936.[3] After curacies in Stoke on Trent and Leeds he was a chaplain to the British Armed Forces between 1940 and 1945. When peace returned he was Rector of Elland and then a canon residentiary at Ely Cathedral.[4] After a brief spell in a similar role at St Paul's Cathedral he was appointed Archdeacon of Canterbury in 1972, a post he held for nine years. A noted commentator on Vatican affairs,[5] he died in 1981.[6]
Bibliography
- An Anglican View of the Vatican Council (New York: Morehouse-Barlow, 1962)
- Looking at the Vatican Council (London: SCM Press, 1962)
- Anglican-Roman Relations and the Second Vatican Council (Westminster: Church Information Office, 1964)
- (contributor) Steps to Christian Unity (Doubleday, 1964)
- The Vatican Council: Third Session (Cincinnati: Forward Movement, [1966?])
- (editor) The Second Vatican Council: Studies by Eight Anglican Observers (London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1967)
- Rome and Canterbury, through Four Centuries: A Study of the Relations between the Church of Rome and the Anglican churches, 1530-1973 (New York: Seabury, 1975)
- (posthumous) Observing Vatican II: The Confidential Reports of the Archbishop of Canterbury's representative, Bernard Pawley, 1961-1964 (Cambridge University Press for the Royal Historical Society, 2013) ISBN 9781107052949