David Edwards is the tenth
Anglican
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Bishop of
Fredericton
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, Canada. He was elected
coadjudor bishop at a synod in Fredericton on 10 May 2014 and, subsequently, installed as
diocesan bishop on September 20, 2014. He succeeded the ninth Bishop, the Most Reverend
Claude Miller, who retired on 23 June 2014. He was elected
Metropolitan
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* Metropolitan area, a region consisting of a densely populated urban core and its less-populated surrounding territories
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* Metropolitan county, a typ ...
of the
Ecclesiastical Province of Canada and assumed that position on 1 August 2020.
David Edwards was born and educated in
Shropshire,
England. He studied at
Loughborough University
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and
Homerton College, Cambridge and worked as a high school history teacher prior to completing diplomas in Religious and Evangelism Studies followed by a Masters of Arts in Applied Theology at the
University of Kent at Canterbury.
Both prior to and following his ordination in 1995, Archbishop Edwards served in ministry in the
Diocese of Chelmsford in England, including as Bishop’s Advisor in Evangelism and in th
Parish of High Ongar He moved to
New Brunswick in 1998 to be Principal o
Taylor College of Evangelism He has also served in parishes in
Saint John and as Parish Development Officer for the
Diocese of Fredericton.
He was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Divinity from
Wycliffe College (
University of Toronto) in May 2015 and now serves on the College's Board of Trustees. On behalf of the
Anglican Church of Canada
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, he also serves as Liaison Bishop to
The Mission to Seafarers Canada.
References
External links
Anglican Diocese of Fredericton website
Anglican bishops of Fredericton
21st-century Anglican Church of Canada bishops
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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