E.R. Fairweather

Eugene Rathbone Fairweather was a Canadian Anglican theologian born in Ottawa in 1920 who grew up in Montreal. He died in 2002.

He was educated at McGill University, the University of Toronto, Trinity College (Toronto), and Union Theological Seminary. In 1949 he returned to Trinity College in Toronto to teach, and in 1964 he became the Keble Professor of Divinity; he continued to teach there until his retirement in 1986. He served at various times as the President of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies, the Canadian Theological Society, and the American Theological Society, and was also for several years the Editor of the Canadian Journal of Theology. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, as well as an honorary doctor of Mcgill University in Montreal, the University of King's College in Halifax, and Huron College in London, Ontario. For many years he was a member of the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches, and was in addition an official Anglican observer at the Second Vatican Council as well as a participant in the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission during its initial phase, in connexion with which the Cross of St Augustine was conferred upon him in 1981 by the Archbishop of Canterbury (Robert Runcie).