Type: | bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Reverend |
Andrew Asbil | |
12th Bishop of Toronto | |
Church: | Anglican Church of Canada |
Province: | Ontario |
Diocese: | Toronto |
Term: | 2018–present |
Predecessor: | Colin Johnson |
Other Post: | Dean of Toronto, 2016–2018 |
Ordination: | 1989 (priesthood) |
Consecration: | September 29, 2018 |
Consecrated By: | Colin Johnson |
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Nationality: | Canadian |
Religion: | Anglican |
Parents: | Walter Asbil |
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Andrew Asbil (born 1961) is a Canadian Anglican clergyman who has served as 12th bishop of Toronto since January 2019, succeeding Colin Johnson.[1] His father, Walter Asbil, was Bishop of Niagara from 1991 to 1997.[2]
Asbil attended the University of Waterloo and subsequently received his Master of Divinity degree in 1988 from Huron University College in London, Ontario.[1] He was ordained to the priesthood in 1989 and then served the Anglican Church of Canada in the dioceses of Niagara and Toronto.
He was Dean of Toronto[3] from 2016 until his consecration as bishop in September 2018.[4] On January 1, 2019, he became the diocesan bishop and was installed at the Cathedral Church of St. James in Toronto on January 13, 2019.[1]