Walter Joseph Gilling,

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(23 June 1906-21 July 1993) was a Canadian Anglican priest in the first two thirds of the 20th century. Gilling was educated at

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. Ordained in 1936, his first posts were curacies in

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. He was

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at his old college from 1937 to 1939; then a

in the Canadian Army Service Corps until 1946. He was Rector of St Luke,

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from 1946 to 1956; and

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from 1953 to 1956 He was then

without territorial jurisdiction from 1956 to 1961; and

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