The Rev. Donald Lothrop Garfield, an Episcopal liturgist who helped revise the 1928 Book of Common Prayer, died Monday, 8 April 1996, at Church Home, Baltimore, where he had lived since 1990. He was 71.
Father Garfield was an associate priest from 1980 to 1990 at Grace and St. Peter's Episcopal Church at Monument Street and Park Avenue. From 1965 until 1978, he was rector of St. Mary the Virgin Episcopal Church in New York City, perhaps the most well-known Anglo-Catholic Church in the nation. From 1978 until coming to Baltimore, he was an assistant at New York City's All Saints Episcopal Church.
Fr. Garfield was a member of the Standing Liturgical Commission, which, during the 1970s, undertook a revision of the 1928 prayer book, which has been praised and condemned.
An antiquarian and Anglophile, Fr. Garfield was acutely sensitive to the history and tradition of the prayer book but also was forward-looking in its mission.
Born and raised in Cambridge, Mass., Fr. Garfield was part of an old New England family that traced its ancestors to the Mayflower and was related to President James A. Garfield.
He attended Harvard University, but his studies were interrupted by service with the Navy as a communications officer on Okinawa during World War II. In 1946, he earned his bachelor's degree from Harvard. He was a 1949 graduate of General Seminary in New York and was ordained in 1950. He began his career in 1950 in Baltimore as an assistant priest at Mount Calvary Episcopal Church.
A requiem Mass will be offered at 11 a.m. today at Grace and St. Peter's, 707 Park Ave.
He had no close survivors.
(From The Baltimore Sun, Saturday, April 13, 1996, adapted with corrections received from another contributor, regarding Fr. Garfield's honorific and the correct name of the Liturgical Commission.)
Father Garfield was an associate priest from 1980 to 1990 at Grace and St. Peter's Episcopal Church at Monument Street and Park Avenue. From 1965 until 1978, he was rector of St. Mary the Virgin Episcopal Church in New York City, perhaps the most well-known Anglo-Catholic Church in the nation. From 1978 until coming to Baltimore, he was an assistant at New York City's All Saints Episcopal Church.
Fr. Garfield was a member of the Standing Liturgical Commission, which, during the 1970s, undertook a revision of the 1928 prayer book, which has been praised and condemned.
An antiquarian and Anglophile, Fr. Garfield was acutely sensitive to the history and tradition of the prayer book but also was forward-looking in its mission.
Born and raised in Cambridge, Mass., Fr. Garfield was part of an old New England family that traced its ancestors to the Mayflower and was related to President James A. Garfield.
He attended Harvard University, but his studies were interrupted by service with the Navy as a communications officer on Okinawa during World War II. In 1946, he earned his bachelor's degree from Harvard. He was a 1949 graduate of General Seminary in New York and was ordained in 1950. He began his career in 1950 in Baltimore as an assistant priest at Mount Calvary Episcopal Church.
A requiem Mass will be offered at 11 a.m. today at Grace and St. Peter's, 707 Park Ave.
He had no close survivors.
(From The Baltimore Sun, Saturday, April 13, 1996, adapted with corrections received from another contributor, regarding Fr. Garfield's honorific and the correct name of the Liturgical Commission.)
The Rev. Donald Lothrop Garfield, an Episcopal liturgist who helped revise the 1928 Book of Common Prayer, died Monday, 8 April 1996, at Church Home, Baltimore, where he had lived since 1990. He was 71.
Father Garfield was an associate priest from 1980 to 1990 at Grace and St. Peter's Episcopal Church at Monument Street and Park Avenue. From 1965 until 1978, he was rector of St. Mary the Virgin Episcopal Church in New York City, perhaps the most well-known Anglo-Catholic Church in the nation. From 1978 until coming to Baltimore, he was an assistant at New York City's All Saints Episcopal Church.
Fr. Garfield was a member of the Standing Liturgical Commission, which, during the 1970s, undertook a revision of the 1928 prayer book, which has been praised and condemned.
An antiquarian and Anglophile, Fr. Garfield was acutely sensitive to the history and tradition of the prayer book but also was forward-looking in its mission.
Born and raised in Cambridge, Mass., Fr. Garfield was part of an old New England family that traced its ancestors to the Mayflower and was related to President James A. Garfield.
He attended Harvard University, but his studies were interrupted by service with the Navy as a communications officer on Okinawa during World War II. In 1946, he earned his bachelor's degree from Harvard. He was a 1949 graduate of General Seminary in New York and was ordained in 1950. He began his career in 1950 in Baltimore as an assistant priest at Mount Calvary Episcopal Church.
A requiem Mass will be offered at 11 a.m. today at Grace and St. Peter's, 707 Park Ave.
He had no close survivors.
(From The Baltimore Sun, Saturday, April 13, 1996, adapted with corrections received from another contributor, regarding Fr. Garfield's honorific and the correct name of the Liturgical Commission.)
Father Garfield was an associate priest from 1980 to 1990 at Grace and St. Peter's Episcopal Church at Monument Street and Park Avenue. From 1965 until 1978, he was rector of St. Mary the Virgin Episcopal Church in New York City, perhaps the most well-known Anglo-Catholic Church in the nation. From 1978 until coming to Baltimore, he was an assistant at New York City's All Saints Episcopal Church.
Fr. Garfield was a member of the Standing Liturgical Commission, which, during the 1970s, undertook a revision of the 1928 prayer book, which has been praised and condemned.
An antiquarian and Anglophile, Fr. Garfield was acutely sensitive to the history and tradition of the prayer book but also was forward-looking in its mission.
Born and raised in Cambridge, Mass., Fr. Garfield was part of an old New England family that traced its ancestors to the Mayflower and was related to President James A. Garfield.
He attended Harvard University, but his studies were interrupted by service with the Navy as a communications officer on Okinawa during World War II. In 1946, he earned his bachelor's degree from Harvard. He was a 1949 graduate of General Seminary in New York and was ordained in 1950. He began his career in 1950 in Baltimore as an assistant priest at Mount Calvary Episcopal Church.
A requiem Mass will be offered at 11 a.m. today at Grace and St. Peter's, 707 Park Ave.
He had no close survivors.
(From The Baltimore Sun, Saturday, April 13, 1996, adapted with corrections received from another contributor, regarding Fr. Garfield's honorific and the correct name of the Liturgical Commission.)
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