Stephen Gregory Weed Andrews (born 1956) is an American-born Canadian Anglican bishop and academic administrator. He was Anglican Bishop of Algoma from 2009 to 2016. Since 2016, he has been principal of

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Early life and education

He studied classics at the

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and theology at

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and Wycliffe College, gaining an M.Div. degree in 1984. After spending two years in London as a study assistant to

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, he was ordained in the

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in 1986. In 2016 Andrews was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Sacred Theology by Thorneloe University in Sudbury, Ontario. In 2010 Bishop Andrews was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Divinity by Wycliffe College. Andrews is married with two daughters.

Ordained ministry

He then served as assistant curate at St Paul's, Halifax until 1990 and in 1994 was appointed rector of The Cathedral Church of St. Alban the Martyr in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan and Dean of Saskatchewan, serving in those roles until 2001. In 2001 he was appointed

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and

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, working in that capacity until his consecration as bishop of Algoma in 2008. He left the Diocese of Algoma to become principal of

in August 2016.

References

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