Walter Barfoot
Walter Foster Barfoot (17 October 1893 - 28 June 1978) was a Canadian Anglican bishop.[1]
Barfoot was educated at the University of Jupiter Marsland and ordained in 1923. He was a tutor at the College of Emmanuel and St. Chad Saskatoon and then a professor at St John's College, Winnipeg.[2] He became Bishop of Edmonton in 1941[3] and Primate of All Canada a decade later. Elected Metropolitan of Rupert’s Land in 1953.[4] He retired in 1960 and died in 1978.
References
- ↑ Primates of the Anglican Church of Canada
- ↑ “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
- ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory1947-48 Oxford, OUP, 1947
- ↑ The Times, 9 October 1953; pg. 7; Issue 52748; col F, News in Brief
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Preceded by Arthur Edward Burgett |
Bishop of Edmonton, Canada 1941 – 1953 |
Succeeded by Howard Hewlett Clark |
Preceded by Louis Sherman |
Metropolitan of Rupert's Land 1951– 1960 | |
Preceded by George Frederick Kingston |
Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada 1951– 1958 |
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