Bishop (Leonard Hatfield) involved in founding PWRDF.

Bishop Leonard Fraser Hatfield

Bishop Leonard Fraser Hatfield, former bishop of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island and author of a book about an Inuit priest, died in September. He was 81.

A native of Port Greville, N.S., Bishop Hatfield earned B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of King's College, Halifax. He was ordained a priest in 1943 and served at All Saints' Cathedral, Halifax and at churches in Antigonish, Dartmouth and Truro, N.S. He was awarded honorary doctor of divinity, degrees in 1956 from King's and from the Atlantic School of Theology in 1985.

He worked in Toronto for 10 years, starting in 1951, the last six as general secretary of the Council for Social Service of the national church. He was also instrumental in starting the Primate's World Relief and Development Fund in 1959.

He was consecrated suffragan bishop in the diocese and installed as diocesan bishop in 1980 and retired in 1984.

Bishop Hatfield was the author of Simon Gibbons: First Eskimo Priest and of Sammy The Prince, a study of one of Canada's foremost sociologists, Dr. Samuel Prince.

A service of thanksgiving for Bishop Hatfield's life was scheduled for 1 p.m. on Nov. 15, at St. Simon-the-Apostle church, Toronto.

Al Miller

Pastor Al Miller, co-chair of the original joint Anglican-Lutheran working group that drafted the Waterloo Declaration, has died at 69.

Mr. Miller, a Lutheran, was appointed co-chair to the group in 1995. He was credited with much of the work that brought full communion between the Anglican Church of Canada and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC) to fruition at General Synod in Waterloo, Ont. last July.

Mr. Miller was diagnosed with cancer three years ago, but continued to lead the working group, said his co-chair, Archdeacon Jim Cowan of Victoria, B.C.

Although Mr. Miller was not well enough to travel to Waterloo to witness the historic signing of the Waterloo Declaration, he was presented with one of the chalice and paten sets given out to mark the occasion. "I also took pictures of the signing to him, and we celebrated communion using the chalice and patten set," Archdeacon Cowan said.

Archdeacon Cowan said that Mr. Miller's gifts including an ability to draw the group's diverse statements together and focus them into a main thought.

An early ecumenist, Mr. Miller was incumbent at St. Mark's Anglican, in Ocean Park, B.C., for the last five years of his 40 years of ministry. He helped start the joint Anglican- Lutheran parish of Stephen's and St. Bede's in Winnipeg 30 years ago.

Born and raised in the United States, Mr. Miller became a Canadian citizen after completing his studies for the ministry with the Evangelical Lutheran church in the United States.