John Clarke (bishop)

John Robert Clarke (born 27 July 1938) is a retired bishop of the Anglican Church of Canada.[1]

Clarke was educated at the University of Western Ontario and ordained in 1963.[2] His first positions were as a curate at St Michael and All Angels' Toronto and then priest in charge of the Church of the Apostles in Moosonee until 1984. He was then appointed Archdeacon of the Diocese of Athabasca in 1984[3] and its diocesan bishop in 1992. He was also Metropolitan of Rupert’s Land from 2003 until 2009.

References

  1. Province of Ontario
  2. Crockford's 1975–76 Lambeth, Church House, 1975, ISBN 0-19-200008-X
  3. Who's Who 2008: London, A & C Black, 2008 ISBN 978-0-7136-8555-8
Anglican Communion titles
Preceded by
Gary Frederick Woolsey
Bishop of Athabasca
19922009
Succeeded by
Fraser Lawton
Preceded by
Thomas Oliver Morgan
Metropolitans of Rupert's Land
20032009
Succeeded by
David Ashdown