Geoffrey Woodcroft

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Geoffrey Woodcroft
13th Bishop of Rupert's Land
Church Anglican Church of Canada
Province Rupert's Land
Diocese Rupert's Land
Installed2018
Predecessor Donald Phillips
SuccessorGeoffrey Woodcroft
Orders
Ordination1990
Consecration2018
Personal details
Born
Geoffrey John Joseph Woodcroft

Ontario, Canada
Denomination Anglicanism
Alma mater Huron University College

Geoffrey Woodcroft is a Canadian Anglican bishop who has been the 13th Bishop of Rupert's Land since 2018. [1]

Woodcroft was educated at Huron University College. Woodcroft was ordained a priest in 1990. He served in the Diocese of Algoma before moving to the Diocese of Rupert's Land to take up the ministry of chaplain at St. John's College, University of Manitoba. He was the incumbent at St Paul, Fort Garry, Winnipeg [2] from 2003 until his election to the episcopate. [3]

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Religious titles
Preceded by Bishop of Rupert's Land
2018
Incumbent