Godfrey Philip Gower was the fifth Bishop of New Westminster and Metropolitan of British Columbia. [1]
He was born on 5 December 1899, [2] educated at Imperial College, London and St. John's College, University of Manitoba and ordained in 1931. [3] He then held incumbencies in Camrose, Edmonton and Vancouver. He was elected Bishop of New Westminster in 1951 [4] and Metropolitan of British Columbia in 1968, retiring from both posts in 1971. He died on 23 August 1992. [5]
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He was born in London on 6 March 1927, educated at London University and ordained in 1953. After a curacy at St Mark's, Dalston he held incumbencies at Cassiar, Smithers and Fort St John. In 1969 he became Bishop of Caledonia and in 1980 was translated to New Westminster. In 1981 he became Metropolitan of British Columbia, resigning in 1993. From then until his retirement Principal, St Mark's Theological College and an Assistant Bishop in Dar es Salaam.
The Most Rev. Thomas David Somerville was the sixth Bishop of New Westminster and eighth Metropolitan of British Columbia.
Adam Urias de Pencier (1866-1949) was the third Bishop of New Westminster and second Archbishop and Metropolitan of British Columbia.
Melissa Maxine Skelton was the 9th Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of New Westminster, a diocese in the Anglican Church of Canada, and was the 12th Metropolitan of the Ecclesiastical Province of British Columbia and Yukon. She was the first woman to be elected a metropolitan and archbishop in Anglican Church of Canada. Skelton was succeeded in her ministry as Bishop of New Westminster by John Stephens on February 28, 2021.
