Riscylla Shaw

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Riscylla Walsh Shaw [1] (b 1972) is a Canadian Suffragan Bishop. [2]

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Education

Shaw was educated at the University of Toronto and ordained in 2001.

Career

Becomes bishop

Shaw was elected on 17 September 2016, [3] and consecrated on January 7, 2017. [4] She is responsible for 57 parishes in the Trent-Durham section of the Toronto diocese. [5]

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