Bernard Clinton Pawley (24 January 1911 – 15 November 1981) was an Anglican priest, author, and ecumenist.
He was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire,1911 England CensusWho was Who 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 educated at Portsmouth Grammar School and Wadham College, Oxford and ordained in 1936.Crockford's Clerical Directory1940-41 Oxford, OUP,1941 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.Cathedral fact sheet 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,Amongst others he wrote Looking at the Vatican Council, 1962; Anglican-Roman Relations, 1964; The Second Vatican Council, 1967; and Rome and Canterbury through Four Centuries, 1975 > British Library website accessed 19 September 2010 he died in 1981."The Ven Bernard Pawley." The Times, 17 November 1981; pg. 12; Issue 61084; col G
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)
References