Archdeacon Ted Light, 91, served as general secretary.Archdeacon Edwin Stanley ("Ted") Light, who served as general secretary of General Synod The General Synod is the title of the governing body of some church organizations. Church of England In the Church of England, General Synod was instituted in 1970 and is the culmination of a process of rediscovering self-government for the Church of England that had , the Anglican Church of Canada's governing body Noun 1. governing body - the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something; "he claims that the present administration is corrupt"; "the governance of an association is responsible to its members"; "he , from 1968 to 1979, died Saturday, May 21. He was 91. Born March 19, 1914 on a farm near Leaske, Sask., Mr. Light was the first in his family to enter the priesthood. "I didn't have what you might call a Damascus Road experience," he told the Canadian Churchman (predecessor to the Anglican Journal) in a 1979 interview. "I really wanted to work with people and I thought I could best fulfill that vocation through the church." (His eldest son, Gordon, followed in his footsteps, and is now bishop of the Anglican Parishes of the Central Interior, formerly Cariboo). After receiving a bachelor of arts degree at the University of Saskatchewan The University of Saskatchewan (U of S) is a coeducational public research university located on the east side of the South Saskatchewan River in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. The University is celebrating its centennial year in 2007. and a licentiate in theology The Licentiate in Theology or the Licence in Theology (LTh is the usual abbreviation) is a theological qualification commonly awarded for ordinands and laymen studying theology in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. at Emmanuel College There is more than one Emmanuel College:
 n`), city (1991 pop. 186,058), S central Sask., Canada, on the South Saskatchewan River. , Mr. Light served at parishes in Spiritwood, Sask., and Campbell River, B.C. When World War II broke out, he enlisted in the Air Force "because all the young men were leaving." He failed to become a pilot because he couldn't land planes properly so he decided to train as an air bomber. Before he could finish his training, however, Mr. Light was drafted into the chaplaincy service in England and Germany. His distinguished career in the Armed Forces included a stint as assistant director in the Air Force chaplaincy in Ottawa, as command chaplain of Canada's North Atlantic Treaty Organization North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), established under the North Atlantic Treaty (Apr. 4, 1949) by Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, and the United States. (NATO NATO: see North Atlantic Treaty Organization. NATO in full North Atlantic Treaty Organization International military alliance created to defend western Europe against a possible Soviet invasion. ) forces stationed in France, and as chaplain general, with a rank of brigadier general, responsible for 130 chaplains in the Canadian Army, Navy and Air Force. Mr. Light joined General Synod as general secretary in 1968, under the leadership of then-primate Archbishop Howard Clark. From 1971 until his retirement in 1979, he worked closely with Archbishop Clark's successor, Archbishop Edward "Ted" Scott. Mr. Light considered himself a peacemaker. "It's just not my nature to make provocative statements," he told the Churchman in an interview upon his retirement. "I really dislike bitter conflict, dissension that is unproductive and that can be destructive." As general secretary, he said he found himself in a "unique" position in the church. He saw himself as "the person the diocesan church could relate to when the primate isn't here," adding that "the church out there has a confidence in the general secretary which I think is great, but you can't rake it lightly." A memorial service was held on May 28 in Meaford, Ont., Mr. Light's wife, Evelyn, died just nine days later, on May 30. They are survived by their four sons--Gordon, Ted, Gregory, and Brian. |
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