Frederick Wilkinson Explained
Frederick Hugh Wilkinson MM (two bars), ED (1896 – 1980) was the 7th Bishop of Toronto.[1]
Life and ministry
Wilkinson was born in 1896[2] into an ecclesiastical family[3] and educated at the University of Toronto. He was ordained in 1925.
He began his ordained ministry as a curate at the Church of the Ascension, Hamilton, Ontario.[4] After this he was a professor at the College of Emmanuel and St. Chad, Saskatoon and then Rector of St Stephen's Calgary . He was Sub-Dean of Christ Church Cathedral, Vancouver from 1932 to 1936.[5] Further incumbencies at St James's Montreal and St Paul's Toronto followed[6] before he became a coadjutor bishop of the Diocese of Toronto in 1953 and its diocesan bishop in 1955. He served until 1966 and died in 1980.[7]
Notes and References
- https://openlibrary.org/books/OL17413529M/The_second_John_Strachan_memorial_address_delivered_in_the_Cathedral_Church_of_St._James_on_the_97th_anniversary_of_his_death_and_the_125_anniversary_of_the_founding_of_the_diocese_All_Saints'_Day_Sunday_November_1_1964 2nd John Stachan Lecture, 1964
- http://www.canadaveteranshallofvalour.com/WilkinsonFH.htm Canada veterans
- Canadian Historical Review University of Toronto Press ISSN 0008-3755 Issue Volume 67, Number 4 / 1986 pp62-63
- http://www3.telus.net/kellett-adams/CCCHistory/CHAP5.htm CCC History
- http://www3.telus.net/kellett-adams/CCCHistory/Past%20leaders.htm Diocese of New Westminster
- Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976
- http://speeches.empireclub.org/61601/data Empire Club of Canada
