Ron Shepherd (bishop)

The Rt Rev. Ronald Francis Shepherd, [1] BA, AKC (15 July 1926 – 12 October 2012[2]) was the 10th Anglican Bishop of British Columbia, serving from 1985 to 1992.

Jones was educated at the University of British Columbia and King's College London [3] and ordained in 1953.[4] Following a curacy at St Stephen’s, Rochester Row he was Rector of St Paul’s, Glanford, Ontario and then All Saints, Winnipeg. He was Dean of Edmonton (1968–69) and then, from 1969, Dean of Montreal before his elevation to the Episcopate in 1985.

References

  1. Photo
  2. Obituary
  3. ‘SHEPHERD, Rt Rev. Ronald Francis’, Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 2012 accessed 15 Oct 2013
  4. Crockford's Clerical Directory1959-60 p1056: Oxford, OUP,1959
Anglican Communion titles
Preceded by
Hywel James Jones
Bishop of British Columbia
1985 1992
Succeeded by
Raymond Barry Jenks