Education
Tay was educated in medicine at the University of Singapore.
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.
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 was involved in the consecration of Charles H. Murphy III and John H. Rogers Junior. as bishops in 2000.