Harold Lee Nutter CM, (29 December 1923 – 9 September 2017) was the 6th

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and later the 16th Metropolitan of Canada. He was born on December 29, 1923, educated at

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and

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in 1946 and Priest the following year. Later he held incumbencies in Simonds and Upham,

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then St Mark,

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. In 1960 he was appointed

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. Eleven years later he became the area's

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and in 1980

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of his province- posts he held until 1989. He died on September 9, 2017.

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