Barry Hollowell

Barry Craig Bates Hollowell (April 14, 1948 – August 17, 2016)[1] was an Anglican bishop in Canada. He was the seventh Bishop of Calgary.[2]

The Right Reverend

Barry Hollowell
Bishop of Calgary
ChurchAnglican Church of Canada
In office1999-2005
PredecessorBarry Curtis
SuccessorDerek Hoskin
Orders
Ordination1974
Consecration1999
Personal details
Born(1948-04-14)April 14, 1948
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
DiedAugust 17, 2016(2016-08-17) (aged 68)
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
SpouseLinda Barry-Hollowell (d. 2008)
Kevin Huang
Children3
Alma materHarvard University

Life

Born in Boston, Massachusetts[3] and educated at Valparaiso University after which he studied theology in the United Kingdom at Cambridge University and Westcott House. He then finished an M.Div. degree at the Episcopal Theological School (Cambridge, Massachusetts). He was ordained a priest in 1974.[4] He was a deacon at All Saints' Chelmsford, Massachusetts and then assistant curate at Christ Church Cathedral, Fredericton, New Brunswick. He was then Anglican chaplain at the University of New Brunswick, rector of St George's St Catharines and, before his ordination to the episcopate, Archdeacon of Lincoln, Ontario. He resigned from the position of diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Calgary in 2005. Having previously completed master's degrees in both pastoral counselling (Saint Paul University in Ottawa) and in psychology (University of New Brunswick), he pursued doctoral studies and received a PhD in counselling psychology from the University of Calgary in 2012. His dissertation was entitled "The Experience of Spirituality in the Lives of Anglican Gay Men".

References

  1. Obituary in the Anglican Journal, 2 September 2016
  2. Canadian Anglican Archived 2011-03-16 at the Wayback Machine
  3. Who's Who 2008: London, A & C Black, 2008 ISBN 978-0-7136-8555-8
  4. Crockford's Clerical Directory1975-76 Lambeth, Church House, 1975 ISBN 0-19-200008-X
Anglican Communion titles
Preceded by
John Barry Curtis
Bishop of Calgary
19992005
Succeeded by
Derek Balfour Erskine Hoskin


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