David Perry Crawley was Archbishop of Kootenay and Metropolitan of British Columbia and Yukon from 1994 to 2004. He was born in 1937, the son of the Rev. Canon George Antony Crawley and Lucy Lillian Ball, and educated at the

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and the

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. He was

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in 1961 and was the

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at St Thomas',

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until 1966. He was Canon Missioner at All Saints Cathedral, Edmonton from 1967 until 1970 and Rector of St Matthew's,

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from 1971 until 1977. He was

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from 1974 to 1977 and of

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until 1981. He was a

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at St John's College, Winnipeg from 1981 to 1982 after that Rector of St Michael and All Angels, Regina (1982–85). In 1985 he became the twelfth rector of St. Paul's, Vancouver where he sought to heal the relationship between the parish and the local LGBT community and to minister to the members of that community who were at the time dealing with the AIDS crisis. He wrote an account of his experiences in ''A parish transformed''. In 1990 he resigned his position at St Paul's on being elected to the

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(as Bishop of Kootenay) in 1990. He has been twice married and has three daughters.

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