John Feetham (bishop)
John Oliver Feetham (28 January 1873 – 14 September 1947) was a long-serving[1] Anglican bishop[2] in Australia who was aligned with the Anglo-Catholic tradition.[3]
Early life
Feetham was born into an ecclesiastical family, his father was the Reverend William Feetham, Rural Dean of Raglan, Monmouthshire and his mother the daughter of an archdeacon.[4] He was educated at Marlborough College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge.[5][6]
Religious life
Feetham was ordained in 1899.[7] After a curacy at St Simon Zelotes, Bethnal Green,[8] he was Principal[9] of the Brotherhood of the Good Shepherd (one of the Australian Bush Brotherhoods).[10] In 1913 he was ordained to the episcopate as the fourth Bishop of North Queensland.[11]
Later life
Feetham died on 14 September 1947[12] and his ashes were interred beneath the high altar at St James' Cathedral, Townsville.[13]
Feetham is commemorated in the Australian Anglican calendar on 15 September.
References
- ↑ "Bishop's Lodge (entry 600883)". Queensland Heritage Register. Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 13 July 2015.
- ↑ James Cook University of North Queensland
- ↑ Anglo-Catholicism in Australia
- ↑ Who was Who 1987-1990: London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
- ↑ "Feetham, John Oliver (FTN892JO)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ↑ The Times, 14 December 1891 p. 12, "University Intelligence Oxford, Dec. 12"
- ↑ The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory, London, John Phillips, 1900
- ↑ Genuki
- ↑ ADB on-line
- ↑ NLA Catalogue
- ↑ "Ecclesiastical Intelligence. New Bishop Of North Queensland", The Times 1 November 1912, p. 4.
- ↑ "Obituary Bishop Of North Queensland", The Times 16 September 1947, p. 6
- ↑ Cathedral website
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| Preceded by George Horsfall Frodsham |
Bishop of North Queensland 1913 –1947 |
Succeeded by Wilfrid Bernard Belcher |