Derwyn Jones (bishop)

Derwyn Dixon Jones DD (4 October 1938 – 8 March 2005) was an eminent Anglican priest and bishop in the second half of the 20th century.^[1]

Born into an ecclesiastical family on 5 August 1925,Link text</ref>. His father was Walter Jones, priest and Doctor of Divinity > Who's Who 2008: London, A & C Black, 2008 ISBN 978-0-7136-8555-8</ref> and educated at the University of Western Ontario, he was ordained in 1947^[2] He held curacies at Holy Trinity, Winnipeg and All Saints’, Windsor. He was Rector of St Andrew’s, Kitchener and then Assistant Rector at St Paul’s Cathedral, London, Ontario. After further incumbencies at the Canon Davis Memorial Church, Sarnia, St Barnabas, Windsor, St Peter’s, Brockville and St James, Westminster he became Archdeacon of Middlesex. He was suffragan bishop of Huron in 1982, coadjutor in 1983 and diocesan from 1984 to 1990.^[3] Having gained, at some point, a Doctorate of Divinity (DD), he died on died 8 March 2005.

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