Walter Barfoot
Walter Foster Barfoot (17 October 1894 – 28 June 1978) was a Canadian Anglican bishop.[1]
Barfoot was educated at Wycliffe College[2] and ordained in 1923. He was a tutor at the College of Emmanuel and St. Chad Saskatoon and then a professor at St John's College, Winnipeg.[3] He became Bishop of Edmonton in 1941[4] and Primate of All Canada a decade later. Elected Metropolitan of Rupert's Land in 1953.[5] He retired in 1959 and died in 1978.
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Preceded by Arthur Burgett | Bishop of Edmonton, Canada 1941–1953 | Succeeded by Howard Clark |
Preceded by Louis Sherman | Metropolitan of Rupert's Land 1951–1959 | |
Preceded by | Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada 1951–1959 |
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Bishops of Edmonton (Canada)
- Henry Gray
- Arthur Burgett
- Walter Barfoot
- Howard Clark
- Gerald Burch
- John Langstone
- Kent Clarke
- Ken Genge
- Victoria Matthews
- Jane Alexander
- Stephen London
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