Thomas Morgan (bishop)
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Thomas Oliver Morgan (born 20 January 1941) is a retired
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of the
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. Morgan was educated at the
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and trained for the priesthood at
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and Tyndale Hall, Bristol. He began his ordained ministry as a
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at the Church of the Saviour,
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, after which he was the
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of Porcupine Plain, Saskatchewan. After being rector of Kinistino he became
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of Indian Missions in the
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and then the diocesan Bishop of Saskatchewan in 1985.Diocesan website
He was
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to be the Bishop of Saskatoon in 1993 and then became the
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of Saskatoon and Metropolitan of the Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert's Land in 2000, resigning both positions in 2003.


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1941 births University of Saskatchewan alumni Alumni of the Theological Department of King's College London Anglican bishops of Saskatchewan Anglican bishops of Saskatoon 20th-century Anglican Church of Canada bishops 21st-century Anglican Church of Canada bishops Metropolitans of Rupert's Land 21st-century Anglican archbishops Living people {{Canada-Anglican-bishop-stub