[Magdalen] +Tony+

[Ginga Wilder]

May Fr. Tony test in eternal peace with all the saints in light.
Amen.

GInga Wilder

On Tue, Oct 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM Timothy Stewart <tasearthlink at earthlink.net>
wrote:

> I read in the October 19, 2025 edition of "The Living Church" that our
> +Tony+ passed away August 13, 2025.
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> Below is a scan of the obituary.
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> Clavier
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> The Rt. Rev. Anthony (Tony) Clavier who served as
> primus of the American Episcopal Church and as a
> bishop of the Anglican Catholic Church before being
> received into the Episcopal Church, died August 13 at
> 85. Clavier had returned to the United Kingdom to live
> near one of his sons, Mark, who serves as a priest in
> Brecon, Wales.
> He was a graduate of Geneva Theological
> Seminary, both in bachelor’s and graduate studies.
> After his reception into the Episcopal Church,
> Clavier mostly tended to parish ministry, though he also
> strived to be a bridge-builder between conservatives and
> progressives. Clavier was among the original
> contributors to Covenant, TLC’s online journal, and
> served as editor of The Anglican Digest for a time.
> Clavier was born in Worsbrough Dale, South
> Yorkshire, to a divorced mother who was a district nurse
> and midwife. “Their relationship was affectionate but
> often fraught- two strong wills locked in close quarters,
> trying to make a life together in mid-century England.
> She was fiercely proud, sharp- tongued, and determined.
> He was clever and charismatic, with a mind very much
> his own,” Mark Clavier wrote in a tribute (tinyurl.com/
> tdavier) on his Substack, Well- Tempered.
> “The church became his sanctuary from an early
> age. It gave him a structure, an anchor, and a refuge. At
> four, he asked his mother to dress his teddy bear (which
> we still have) as a bishop,” Mark Clavier wrote. "He
> learned the organ, read the Book of Common Prayer
> alongside adventure novels, and developed an
> unshakable sense that God had placed something in him
> that must be lived out.”
> He was received into the Episcopal Church in 1999
> by Bishop Larry Maze of Arkansas and served in Pine
> Bluff in that state. He also served in West Virginia,
> Europe, and South Dakota. In the Diocese of Springfield
> he looked after two small parishes, staying with them for
> the longest cure of his vocation.
> “In 2016, Presiding Bishop Michael Curry gave him
> the honorary title of ‘ecumenical bishop,’ allowing him
> to robe and style himself as a bishop without exercising
> episcopal ministry,” Mark Clavier wrote. “It was an
> unnecessary but generous act of grace, and it moved my
> father deeply.”
> He added: “When I picture him now, I see him
> preaching in his prime, that familiar twinkle in his eye
> when he was in full flow. I see him in his armchair,
> surrounded by tottering piles of books, a dog at his side.
> I see him walking with his pronounced waddle, a tweed
> hat on his head and a walking stick in hand, entertaining
> his companions with stories. I see him delighting in
> reading The Wind in the Willows to a classroom of
> enthralled children.”
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> Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord,
> and let perpetual light shine upon him.
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> Tim Stewart
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