Theodore David Butler Ragg (23 November 1919 – 1 July 2002) was the

Bishop of Huron The Diocese of Huron is a diocese of the Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario of the Anglican Church of Canada. The diocese comprises just over 31,000 square kilometres in southwestern Ontario, sandwiched between Lake Huron and Lake Erie. Its See c ...

in the last third of the 20th century. Born into an ecclesiastical family and educated the

University of Manitoba The University of Manitoba (U of M, UManitoba, or UM) is a public research university in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Founded in 1877, it is the first university of Western Canada. Both by total student enrolment and campus area, the University of ...

, he was ordained in 1950. After a

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at St Michael and All Angels,

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he held incumbencies at

Nokomis Nokomis is the name of Nanabozho's grandmother in the Ojibwe traditional stories and was the name of Hiawatha's grandmother in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, ''The Song of Hiawatha'', which is a re-telling of the Nanabozho stories. Nokomis is ...

, Wolseley Wolseley and North Vancouver before becoming

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of Saugeen. He was

from 1974 to 1984 and died in 2002.

References

1919 births University of Manitoba alumni Anglican bishops of Huron 20th-century Anglican Church of Canada bishops 2002 deaths {{Canada-Anglican-bishop-stub