Douglas Blackwell (bishop)

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Douglas Charles Blackwell is a retired Canadian Suffragan Bishop. [1]

Blackwell was educated at Wycliffe College, Toronto and ordained in 1964. After a curacy in Calgary [2] he held incumbencies at Cochrane and North Battleford He was Archdeacon of Saskatchewan from 1973 to 1974 when he came to the Diocese of Toronto, firstly as Executive Assistant to Bishop Lewis Garnsworthy and then as a suffragan bishop in the diocese.

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References

  1. Canadian Anglican
  2. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1980-82 p 98 London: OUP Press, 1983 ISBN   0-19-200010-1