William Gerald Burch (5 March 1911 - 22 October 2003) was a
Canadian
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Anglican bishop
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.
Biography
Born in
Winnipeg
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,
Manitoba
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, on 5 March 1911 he was educated at the
University of Toronto
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and
ordained
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in 1938. He was a
Curate
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at Christ Church,
Toronto
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from 1936 to 1940.
['' Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76'' London: Oxford University Press, 1976 ] He held
incumbencies at
Scarborough Junction, St Luke,
Winnipeg
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and All Saints,
Windsor. He was
Dean of
All Saints Cathedral, Edmonton from 1956 to 1960 and
Suffragan Bishop of
Edmonton
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from 1960 to 1961. In that year he became
its diocesan
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History
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bishop
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, a post he held until 1976. He died on 22 October 2003.
Notes
1911 births
2003 deaths
People from Winnipeg
University of Toronto alumni
Deans of Edmonton
Anglican bishops of Edmonton
20th-century Anglican Church of Canada bishops
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