Andrew Donnan Smith (born 1944) was a suffragan bishop of the

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from 1996 to 1999, and diocesan bishop from 1999 to 2010.

Biography

Smith was born in

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in 1944, and was educated at the public schools in North

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. In 1965 he graduated with a

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degree from Trinity College, Connecticut then earned his

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(M.Div.) degree from

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in 1968. He was ordained to the diaconate on June 11, 1968, to the priesthood on March 22, 1969. He has served as curate of Trinity Church in Hartford from 1968 till 1971. Later he became the assistant priest of St John's Church in

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where he remained until 1976 after which he became rector at St Michael's Church in

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. He also served as rector at St Mary's Church in

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from 1985 till 1996. Smith was elected Suffragan Bishop of Connecticut on October 28, 1995. He was consecrated on May 4, 1996, by Presiding Bishop Edmond L. Browning. He was elected Bishop of Connecticut in June 1999 and was installed on October 16 of the same year. He remained diocesan bishop until 2010, after which he served as assistant bishop in the

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for three years.Cathedral of St John the Divine, Ordination and Consecration of the Bishop Coadjutor, 20 May 2023
Retrieved 22 May 2023.

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