Henry Hill (bishop)

Henry Gordon Hill (14 December 1921 – 21 October 2006[1]) was the Anglican Bishop of Ontario [2] from 1975[3] until 1981.[4]

He was educated at Queen's University, Kingston and St John’s College, Cambridge. He was ordained]] Deacon in 1948; and Priest in 1950. His first posts were curacies in Belleville and Adolphustown. He was then Chaplain of St John’s College, Cambridge from 1952 to 1955 and then held a further curacy at Wisbech. After this he was the incumbencies at Reddendale and then an Academic at the University of Windsor until his elevation to the Episcopate. In 1980 he was selected by Robert Runcie, the Archbishop of Canterbury to be his successor as the co-chair of the international Anglican-Orthodox joint discourse discussion.[5]

Hill’s obituary states that "he was the Episcopal Visitor of the Community of Jesus in Cape Cod, MA and had close connections with the Grenville Christian College in Brockville, ON." [6]

References
  1. Obits for life Archived 2015-07-03 at the Wayback Machine
  2. Anglican Foundation Archived 2013-11-04 at Archive.today
  3. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 p451 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN 0-19-200008-X
  4. ‘HILL, Rt Rev. Henry Gordon’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 3 Nov 2013
  5. Staff (2006-10-25). "Bishop Henry Hill 'devoted years of study and dialogue to Orthodoxy'". Anglican Journal. Retrieved 2020-10-25.
  6. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-07-03. Retrieved 2013-11-03.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
Religious titles
Preceded by
Jack Creggan		 Bishop of Ontario
1975–1981		 Succeeded by
Allan Read


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