David Somerville (bishop) explained

Type:Bishop
Honorific Prefix:The Most Reverend
David Somerville
Metropolitan of British Columbia and Archbishop of New Westminster
Church:Anglican Church of Canada
Province:British Columbia
Diocese:New Westminster
Term:1971–1980
Predecessor:John Timothy Frame (as metropolitan)
Godfrey Gower (as bishop)
Successor:Douglas Walter Hambidge
Ordination:1939 (diaconate); 1940 (priesthood)
Consecration:1969
Birth Date:November 11, 1915
Previous Post:Bishop of New Westminster, 1971–1975

Thomas David Somerville (November 11, 1915 – July 25, 2011)[1] was the sixth Bishop of New Westminster and eighth Metropolitan of British Columbia.[2]

Somerville was born in Ashcroft, British Columbia and educated at the King George Secondary School and the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Ordained in 1939, he had incumbencies in Princeton, Sardis and Vancouver.[3] He was Dean of Residence at the Anglican Theological College of British Columbia then Coadjutor Bishop of New Westminster[4] and then its diocesan[5] and Metropolitan of British Columbia from 1975, retiring from both positions in 1980.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Province . 106 . 31 Jul 2011 . www.newspapers.com.
  2. http://www.anglican.ca/search/faq/022.htm Metropolitans of British Columbia
  3. Web site: Province . 2 . 4 Mar 1952 . www.newspapers.com.
  4. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76. London: Oxford University Press, 1976.
  5. http://www3.telus.net/kellett-adams/CCCHistory/Past%20leaders.htm Diocese of New Westminster: archbishops and bishops