REV. A .F. MCNULTY; EPISCOPAL PRIEST FROM PENNSYLVANIA

The Rev. Arthur F. McNulty Jr., an Episcopal priest and rector of one of the largest Episcopal churches in the country, died of a stroke Sunday in the Rockville section of Vernon, Conn.

He was 53.

Mr. McNulty and his wife, Priscilla, were on their way back to their home in Pittsburgh after vacationing in Wareham, Mass. when he was stricken.

Since 1985, Father McNulty, had been the rector at Calvary Episcopal Church in Pittsburgh, a church that has more than 1,400 members.

He was a 1962 graduate of Trinity College in Hartford with a degree in the philosophy of religion. While at Trinity, he was president of the student senate and secretary of his class.

Mr. McNulty earned a master’s degree at the General Theological Seminary in New York City and did graduate work at King’s College, Cambridge University, England.

He was also the chairman of an advisory committee connected with the Pittsburgh Cancer Institute of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and taught homiletics, the art of preparing sermons, at the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Gettysburg, Pa.