John Feetham (bishop)

John Oliver Feetham (28 January 1873 – 14 September 1947) was a long-serving[1] Anglican bishop[2] in Australia who was aligned with the Anglo-Catholic tradition.[3]

Feetham was born into an ecclesiastical family, his father was the Reverend William Feetham, Rural Dean of Raglan, Monmouthshire and his mother the daughter of an archdeacon.[4] He was educated at Marlborough College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge.[5][6] and ordained in 1899.[7] After a curacy at St Simon Zelotes, Bethnal Green,[8] he was Principal[9] of the Brotherhood of the Good Shepherd.[10] In 1913 he was ordained to the episcopate as the fourth Bishop of North Queensland.[11] He died on 14 September 1947[12] and his ashes were interred beneath the high altar at St James' Cathedral Townsville.[13]

Feetham is commemorated in the Australian Anglican calendar on 15 September.

References

  1. ↑ "Bishop's Lodge (entry 15658)". Queensland Heritage Register. Queensland Heritage Council.
  2. ↑ James Cook University of North Queensland
  3. ↑ Anglo-Catholicism in Australia
  4. ↑ Who was Who 1987-1990: London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
  5. ↑ "Feetham, John Oliver (FTN892JO)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  6. ↑ The Times, 14 December 1891 p. 12, "University Intelligence Oxford, Dec. 12"
  7. ↑ The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory, London, John Phillips, 1900
  8. ↑ Genuki
  9. ↑ ADB on-line
  10. ↑ NLA Catalogue
  11. ↑ "Ecclesiastical Intelligence. New Bishop Of North Queensland", The Times 1 November 1912, p. 4.
  12. ↑ "Obituary Bishop Of North Queensland", The Times 16 September 1947, p. 6
  13. ↑ Cathedral website
Anglican Communion titles
Preceded by
George Horsfall Frodsham		 Bishop of North Queensland
1913 –1947 		Succeeded by
Wilfrid Bernard Belcher