Moses Tay

Moses Tay Leng Kong; 鄭靈光 (born 1938) was the 7th Bishop of Singapore from 1982 to 1999 and the first Archbishop of the Province of Anglican Church in South East Asia from 1982 to 2000.

Tay was educated in medicine at the University of Singapore. He practiced medicine in Malaysia for eight years.

In 1982, Tay was installed as the 7th Bishop of Singapore.

On 2 February 1996, Tay was installed as first archbishop of the new Anglican Province of Southeast Asia by the then Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey.^[1]

Philip Jenkins notes that when Tay visited Stanley Park in Vancouver in the early 1990s, he was deeply troubled by the totem poles he saw there. He concluded that "as artifacts of an alien religion, these were idols possessed by evil spirits, and they required handling by prayer and exorcism."^[2] Jenkins goes on to suggest that this behavior "horrified the local Anglican church," which "regarded exorcism as an absurd superstition."^[2]

Tay was involved in founding the Anglican Mission in the Americas in the late 1990s to give support to Anglicans in North America who wanted to advance belief in Jesus Christ as the unique provider of Salvation. He was involved in the consecration of Charles H. Murphy III and John H. Rogers Jr. as bishops in 2000.^[3]

Tay was consistently one of the most outspoken voices in the Anglican communion in opposition to any compromise with the Episcopal Church.^[4]

Bibliography

• Born for Blessings: An Autobiography of Moses Tay, Armour Publishing, 2009, ISBN 978-981422287-7

Sources

• biographical sketch on Tay

References

1. "Bishop Moses Tay made archbishop of S-EA province". The Straits Times. 3 February 1996.
2. Jenkins, Philip (2002). The Next Christendom: The Rise of Global Christianity. Oxford University Press. p. 130.
3. article about Tay consecraating Murphy and Rogers
4. article on Tay's position