Walter Asbil

Walter Gordon Asbil is a retired Canadian Anglican bishop.

Asbil was born on 3 October 1932 and educated at Concordia University. Ordained in 1957,^[1] his first ministry position was at Aylwin River Desert. He held incumbencies at South Shore, Montreal, St Stephen’s Montreal, St George's Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec and St George's in St Catharines.^[2] From 1986 to 1990 he was Dean of Christ Church Cathedral, Ottawa when he became coadjutor bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Niagara and then its diocesan bishop in 1991.^[3] He retired in 1997.

References and notes

↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory1975-76 Lambeth, Church House, 1975 ISBN 0-19-200008-X
↑ Who's Who 2008: London, A & C Black, 2008 ISBN 978-0-7136-8555-8
↑ Diocese of Niagara website

Religious titles
Preceded by John Charles Bothwell	Bishop of Niagara 1991 –1997	Succeeded by David Ralph Spence

Bishops of Niagara

Thomas Fuller Charles Hamilton Philip Du Moulin William Clark Derwyn Owen Lewis Broughall Walter Bagnall John Bothwell Walter Asbil Ralph Spence Michael Bird

Suffragans	Clarence Mitchell Kent Clarke

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