Barry Hollowell Explained

Type:Bishop
Honorific-Prefix:The Right Reverend
Barry Hollowell
Bishop of Calgary
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Term:1999–2005
Predecessor:Barry Curtis
Successor:Derek Hoskin
Ordination:1974
Consecration:1999
Birth Date:14 April 1948
Birth Place:Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Death Place:Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Spouse:Linda Barry-Hollowell (d. 2008)
Kevin Huang
Children:3
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Alma Mater:Valparaiso University (BA)
Harvard University (MDiv)
Cambridge University (BA and MA)
Saint Paul University (MA)
University of New Brunswick (MA)
University of Calgary (PhD)[1]

Barry Craig Bates Hollowell (April 14, 1948 – August 17, 2016)[2] was an Anglican bishop in Canada. He was the seventh Bishop of Calgary.[3]

Life

Born in Boston, Massachusetts[4] and educated at Valparaiso University after which he studied theology in the United Kingdom at Cambridge University and Westcott House. He then finished an M.Div. degree at the Episcopal Theological School (Cambridge, Massachusetts). He was ordained a priest in 1974.[5] He was a deacon at All Saints' Chelmsford, Massachusetts and then assistant curate at Christ Church Cathedral, Fredericton, New Brunswick. He was then Anglican chaplain at the University of New Brunswick, rector of St George's St Catharines and, before his ordination to the episcopate, Archdeacon of Lincoln, Ontario. He resigned from the position of diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Calgary in 2005. Having previously completed master's degrees in both pastoral counselling (Saint Paul University in Ottawa) and in psychology (University of New Brunswick), he pursued doctoral studies and received a PhD in counselling psychology from the University of Calgary in 2012. His dissertation was entitled "The Experience of Spirituality in the Lives of Anglican Gay Men".

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Remembering the life of Barry Hollowell. calgaryherald.remembering.ca.
  2. http://www.anglicanjournal.com/articles/former-bishop-of-calgary-barry-hollowell-dies-at-68 Obituary
  3. Web site: Canadian Anglican. https://web.archive.org/web/20110316003630/http://bishop.blogsome.com/category/calgary/. dead. March 16, 2011. www.blogsome.com.
  4. [Who's Who]
  5. [Crockford's Clerical Directory]