Geoffrey Woodcroft Explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Right Reverend
Geoffrey Woodcroft
13th Bishop of Rupert's Land
Church:Anglican Church of Canada
Province:Rupert's Land
Diocese:Rupert's Land
Term Start:2018
Predecessor:Donald Phillips
Successor:Geoffrey Woodcroft
Ordination:1990
Consecration:2018
Birth Name:Geoffrey John Joseph Woodcroft
Birth Place:Ontario, Canada
Religion:Anglicanism
Alma Mater:Huron University College

Geoffrey Woodcroft is a Canadian Anglican bishop who has been the 13th Bishop of Rupert's Land since 2018.[1]

Woodcroft was educated at Huron University College. Woodcroft was ordained a priest in 1990. He served in the Diocese of Algoma before moving to the Diocese of Rupert's Land to take up the ministry of chaplain at St. John's College, University of Manitoba. He was the incumbent at St Paul, Fort Garry, Winnipeg[2] from 2003 until his election to the episcopate.[3]

Notes and References

  1. http://www.rupertsland.ca/about/bishop/ Diocese of Rupertsland
  2. https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoffwoodcroft/?originalSubdomain=ca Linked In, Canada
  3. https://www.anglicanjournal.com/diocese-of-ruperts-land-elects-coadjutor-bishop/ Anglican Journal