John Feetham (bishop) explained

John Oliver Feetham (28 January 1873 – 14 September 1947) was a long-serving Anglican bishop in Australia, who was aligned with the Anglo-Catholic tradition.[1] [2] [3] He was the Anglican Bishop of North Queensland from 1913 until his death in 1947.

Early life

Feetham was born into an ecclesiastical family, his father was the Reverend William Feetham, Rural Dean of Raglan, Monmouthshire and his mother the daughter of an archdeacon.[4] He was educated at Marlborough College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge.[5]

Religious life

Feetham was ordained in 1899.[6] After a curacy at St Simon Zelotes, Bethnal Green,[7] he was Principal[8] of the Brotherhood of the Good Shepherd (one of the Australian Bush Brotherhoods).[9] In 1913 he was ordained to the episcopate as the fourth Bishop of North Queensland.[10]

Feetham established a number of Anglican schools in North Queensland:

Later life

Feetham died on 14 September 1947[12] and his ashes were interred beneath the high altar at St James' Cathedral, Townsville.[13]

Feetham is commemorated in the Australian Anglican calendar on 15 September.[14]

Notes and References

  1. 13 July 2015.
  2. Web site: Anglo-Catholicism in Australia . 27 September 2009 . 6 June 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110606225834/http://anglicanhistory.org/essays/hilliard1993.pdf . live .
  3. Web site: James Cook University of North Queensland . 27 September 2009 . 17 July 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220717004443/https://taylorandfrancis.com/ . live .
  4. [Who's Who (UK)|Who was Who 1987-1990]
  5. The Times, 14 December 1891 p. 12, "University Intelligence Oxford, Dec. 12"
  6. The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory, London, John Phillips, 1900
  7. Web site: Genuki . 27 September 2009 . 5 May 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100505150216/http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/genuki/MDX/BethnalGreen/churches.htm . live .
  8. Web site: ADB on-line . 27 September 2009 . 5 March 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110305045504/http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080502b.htm . live .
  9. Web site: NLA Catalogue . 27 September 2009 . 14 June 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110614123415/http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2437591 . live .
  10. "Ecclesiastical Intelligence. New Bishop Of North Queensland", The Times 1 November 1912, p. 4.
  11. Alison . Moore . John Oliver Feetham (1873–1947) . 8 . 1981 . feetham-john-oliver-6149 . 3 April 2017.
  12. "Obituary Bishop Of North Queensland", The Times 16 September 1947, p. 6
  13. Web site: St James' Cathedral: Tour . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160307092326/https://stjamescathedral.wordpress.com/tour/ . 7 March 2016 . 16 July 2022 . St James' Cathedral, Townsville Queensland Australia.
  14. Web site: Who was 'The Blessed' Bishop John Oliver Feetham? . 2022-07-17 . en . 17 July 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220717004446/https://anglicanfocus.org.au/2021/08/09/who-was-the-blessed-bishop-john-oliver-feetham/ . live .

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